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<h5>Israel Abrahams. &#8220;A Masterpiece for the Week: Disraeli&#8217;s &#8216;Alroy.&#8217;&#8221; <i>The Jewish World</i>. No. 3005 (11 Tamuz 5673/16 July 1913), 9-10. Rpt. <i>Beaconsfield Quarterly</i>, no. 3. 41-3.</h5>
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<li>Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most truthful authors of the nineteenth century. To confuse his bombast with pose, is to misunderstand him. When, therefore, he said of &#8220;Alroy&#8221; that it expressed his &#8220;ideal ambition,&#8221; there is no reason to doubt his sincerity. Mr. Monypenny,<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote253">*</a> whose judgment cannot be trusted in general, was right when he fully accepted Disraeli&#8217;s statement on this point. Mr. Lucien Wolf had previously shown (in the splendid preface to his centenary edition of &#8220;Vivian Grey&#8221;)<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote254">*</a> that &#8220;from start to finish, Lord Beaconsfield&#8217;s novels are so many echoes and glimpses of the Greater Romance of his own life.&#8221; Would that Mr. Wolf would give us an equally fine edition of &#8220;Alroy.&#8221;<br/>
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<li>For &#8220;Alroy&#8221; is a novel that deserves to live and probably will live. From the first it has been better liked by the public than by the professional critics. Soon after the book first appeared in 1833, Disraeli wrote to his sister that he heard good reports as to the popularity of &#8220;Alroy,&#8221; and with characteristic &#8220;conceit&#8221; some may term it, though to others it appears more like &#8220;insight,&#8221; he added: &#8220;I hear no complaints of its style, <i>except from the critics</i>.&#8221; Mr. Monypenny repeated the same critical objections to the style. But such objections have no real basis. &#8220;Alroy&#8221; often falls into rhythms and even into rhymes. Why is this a defect in a prose work? Dickens frequently followed the same method, and in sundry impressive passages his sentences scan faultlessly. Are prose and verse so absoulutely [<i>sic.</i>] divided from one another? If Moli&#232;re&#8217;s bourgeois gentleman found that he had been speaking prose all of his life without knowing it, so do we sometimes speak verse without being conscious of the fact. Do we not all &#8220;drop into poetry&#8221; on occasion, in our ordinary speech in moments of elevation? Moreover, the Oriental writers had created a form in which prose and verse merge; and Disraeli, treating an Eastern theme, might easily have justified his choice of this very form, beloved first of the medieval Arabs, and then perfected by Hebrew contemporaries.<br/>
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<li>Then, as to the character of Alroy himself, Disraeli&#8217;s latest biographer says: &#8220;The real David Alroy appears to have been little better than a vulgar impostor, but Disraeli has idealised him into a figure worthy to be compared with Judas Maccab&#230;us.&#8221; Mr. Monypenny borrowed this judgment (without acknowledgment) from the Rev. Michael Adler&#8217;s able article in the <i>Jewish Encyclopedia</i>.<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote255">*</a> I cannot myself assent to this verdict, though I appreciate the grounds on which it was reached. The whole thing turns on the application of the term &#8220;Pseudo-Messiah&#8221; to such characters. Why call them <i>false</i>? There would be sufficient reason for applying the epithet if we had the clearest evidence that they were conscious rogues, exploiting their people&#8217;s faith, and using their hope as a ladder towards personal ambition. We do not know enough of Alroy to assert this of him. Was Disraeli himself an impostor, because he thought of himself as another redeemer of Israel? There is little doubt that Alroy is drawn from Disraeli himself, just as the Miriam of the story is modelled on the author&#8217;s own sister. It is bad psychology to dub men of the Alroy type as impostors. Mr. Zangwill, in his &#8220;Dreamers of the Ghetto&#8221;<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote256">*</a>&#8212;to my mind his most wonderful book&#8212;refuses to explain Sabbatai Zevi<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote257">*</a> in this easy fashion. Graetz<a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/ednotes.html#ednote258">*</a> naturally so explained him, but it was precisely in such matters that Graetz was an unsafe guide. Are we to judge Messianic claims on the same principles as men judge treason?
<blockquote>Treason never prospers, and for this reason:<br/>
That when it prospers no one calls it treason?</blockquote>
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<li>Is an enthusiastic believer in himself, as the instrument of a great emancipation, &#8220;pseudo&#8221; because he fails? Such explanations explain nothing.<br/>
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<li>Whatever be the truth as to the original Alroy&#8212;and I repeat that the historical sources give us inadequate information as to his inner personality&#8212;there is no room for doubting the character of Disraeli&#8217;s fictitious hero. Alroy is thoroughly sincere portraiture. Mr. Monypenny thought that the story &#8220;never really grips us.&#8221; It depends on who the &#8220;us&#8221; are. A good many readers find George Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;Daniel Deronda&#8221; uninteresting. Yet &#8220;Daniel Deronda&#8221; in Hebrew had a considerable success. Despite its queer mixture of ill-digested lore and of genuine material derived from what Disraeli termed the &#8220;erratic&#8221; Talmud, &#8220;Alroy&#8221; has a good deal of Jewish spirit in it. In the many references to the poetical elements of Jewish life, the sentiment rings true. This fact works backward. Whence did the novelist derive this feeling for the beautiful in Judaism except from his father? Isaac Disraeli presents himself to us as a rather unsympathetic student of Judaism. In his books he shows knowledge, but no feeling for the synagogue. It almost seems as though we do not see the real man in his books, and yet, after all, it may be doubted whether Benjamin inherited his Jewish idealism from his father. The latter did not at all approve of his son&#8217;s Eastern journey. But Benjamin was consumed with the desire to visit Jerusalem, and he realised this passionate longing in 1830-1. In later life he said that he had begun &#8220;Alroy&#8221; before he left England. In the <a href="/editions/alroy/contexts/../novel/p1preface.html">preface to &#8220;Alroy&#8221;</a> he writes: &#8220;Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the Kings of Israel, my thoughts recurred to a personage whose marvellous career had, even in boyhood, attracted my attention, as one fraught with the richest materials of poetic fiction. And I then commenced these pages that should commemorate the name of
&#8216;Alroy.&#8217;&#8221; I do not think that this statement contradicts his later assertion. When he says &#8220;I then commenced,&#8221; he may well be referring to his boyhood.<br/>
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<li>Disraeli thoroughly enjoyed his stay in the Holy Land. He refused to admit that Athens was more impressive than Jerusalem. &#8220;I will not place this spectacle,&#8221; he exclaims of the site of the ancient Temple, &#8220;below the city of Minerva.&#8221; Perhaps the most arresting detail in &#8220;Alroy&#8221; is the thirty-fifth note&#8212;the notes to the book, after the manner of Sir Walter Scott, are full of curious learning. He discusses the origin of coffee, the habits of the marten-cat, the art and furniture of the Orient, the sunset songs of Eastern maidens, the &#8220;Daughter of the Voice,&#8221; the Persian hurling of the jerreeds (javelins) into the air, the practice of the bastinado, the &#8220;golden wine&#8221; of Mount Lebanon, the alleged playing of chess before the date of the Trojan War, screens and fans made of the feathers of the roc, and the &#8220;tremulous aigrettes of brilliants&#8221; worn by persons of the highest rank. In all these directions Disraeli&#8217;s learning and fancy run riot, and the result, sometimes as grotesque as a nightmare, is often successful in producing the required effect. But this thirty-fifth entry strikes a more personal note. Let us read it in his own words: &#8220;The finest view of Jerusalem is from the Mount of Olives. It is little altered since the period when David Alroy is supposed to have gazed upon it; but it is enriched by the splendid Mosque of Omar, built by the Moslem conquerors on the supposed site of the Temple, and which, with its gardens, and arcades, and courts, and fountains, may fairly be described as the most imposing of Moslem fanes. <i>I endeavoured to enter it at the hazard of my life</i>. I was detected and surrounded by a crowd of turbaned fanatics, and escaped with difficulty; but I saw enough to feel that minute inspection would not belie the general character I formed from it from the Mount of Olives. I caught a glorious glimpse of splendid courts, and light airy gates of
Saracenic triumph, flights of noble steps, long arcades, and interior gardens, where silver fountains spouted their tall streams amid the taller cypresses.&#8221;<br/>
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<li>Here we, too, have a &#8220;glorious glimpse&#8221; into one half of the real Disraeli&#8212;here and in &#8220;Tancred&#8221;; for the other half we must study his political novels. &#8220;Vivian Grey,&#8221; so Disraeli himself said, expressed his &#8220;practical&#8221; as &#8220;Alroy&#8221; expressed his &#8220;ideal&#8221; ambition. And one final word. I have said nothing of the plot of &#8220;Alroy.&#8221; I assume it to be familiar to my readers. If it be not, they can easily make good the omission. I have no fear that this story of a twelfth century&#8212;shall I call him &#8220;hero&#8221; or &#8220;impostor&#8221;?&#8212;will fail to grip. For it is more than a story, it is&#8212;to use that over-worked phrase&#8212;also a &#8220;human document.&#8221;</li>
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</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31535">Electronic Editions</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-resource-index field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Resource:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/editions/alroy/index.html">Wondrous Tale of Alroy</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-authored-by-secondary- field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Authored by (Secondary):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/person/abrahams-israel">Abrahams, Israel</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-52 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Section:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/section/editions/alroy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Alroy</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-city-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">City:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/city/jerusalem" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Jerusalem</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/david-alroy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">David Alroy</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/benjamin-disraeli" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Benjamin Disraeli</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/isaac-disraeli" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Isaac D&#039;Israeli</a></li></ul></section>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:30:16 +0000rc-admin17923 at http://www.rc.umd.eduVol 23. No. 46 - Indexhttp://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/qr/index/46.html
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<b>VOLUME</b> <!-- #BeginEditable "VOL#" --><b>23</b><!-- #EndEditable -->, <b>NUMBER</b>
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<div align="center"><a href="#notes">Notes</a> | <a href="#contents">Contents,
Identification of Contributors, and Historical Notes</a> | <a href="abbreviations.html">
Key to Abbreviations</a> | <a href="permissions.html">Permissions</a>
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<li><span class="redbold">This Number was published&nbsp;5 Oct. 1820</span>
[<i>Courier</i> advertisement, 5 Oct. 1820; note also the date mentioned
in the following title of a pamphlet issued in reply to article #550 in
this Number: W. L. Bowles, <i>A Reply to the charges brought by the Reviewer
of Spence's Anecdotes in the Quarterly Review from October 1820 against
the last editor of Pope's Works; and Author of &quot;A Letter to Mr. Campbell,&quot;
on &quot;The Invariable Principles of Poetry.<The Invariable
Principles of Poetry.>&quot;</i> (1820)]<br>
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<li><span class="redbold">'Now we shall publish this Number of the Review
in about a fortnight ...'</span> [Murray MS., JM to John Wilson Croker,
1 Sept. 1820]<br>
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</li>
<li><i>&nbsp;</i><span class="redbold">Rejected articles: Murray MS., Cash
Book, 1821-24, pp.10-11: 'Quarterly Review 46 ... Naples, Irish Eloquence.'</span><br>
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</li>
<li><span class="redbold">#554 is signed 'W' for 'Whistlecraft', John Hookham
Frere's pseudonym, and is therefore, as noted in the <i>DNB</i> article
on Frere, an early instance of a periodical reviewer signing his work</span><br>
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<li><span class="redbold">Important or otherwise interesting articles in this
Number include: #548, #550, #554, #556, #557</span><br>
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<li><span class="redbold">Number of definite attributions for this issue:
10</span><br>
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<li class="redbold">Number of probable or possible attributions for this issue:
2</li>
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<p><a name="contents"></a><b>CONTENTS, IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS, AND HISTORICAL
NOTES</b> </p>
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<p><a name="546"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">546</b>&nbsp;
Article 1</font>. Whittaker, <i>An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the
Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures, with Remarks on Mr. Bellamy</i>'<i>s
New Translation</i>; Bellamy, <i>A New Translation of the Holy Bible</i> Part
II; Bland Burges, <i>Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the Holy Scriptures</i>;
Todd, <i>A Vindication of our Authorized Translation and Translators of the
Bible, in answer to Objections of Mr. John Bellamy and Sir James Bland Burges</i>;
Whittaker, <i>Supplement to an Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Interpretation
of the Hebrew Scriptures, with Remarks on Mr. Bellamy</i>'<i>s New Translation</i>,
287-325.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> George D'Oyly</b>.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Translation of
the Bible</i>&#151;Bellamy, Sir J. B. Burges, &amp;c.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to D'Oyly, Shine cites only JM III's Register.
</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published here for the
first time. Murray MS., George D'Oyly to JM, 24 Apr. 1820, says that he encloses
sheets on Bellamy to forward to WG.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to D'Oyly, but without
evidence.</span></p>
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<p><a name="547"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">547</b>&nbsp;Article
2</font>. Douglas, <i>An Essay on certain Points of Resemblance between the
Ancient and Modern Greeks</i>; Holland, <i>Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania,
Thessaly, Macedonia, &amp;c. during the Years </i>1812 <i>and </i>1813; Haygarth,
<i>Greece, a Poem; with Notes, Classical Illustrations, and Sketches of the
Scenery</i>, 325-59. <b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> John Barrow</b>.
</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Modern Greece.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Barrow, Shine cites only JM III's Register.&nbsp;
</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following evidence is published here for the first
time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: one of the books reviewed was sent
to 'John Barrow' on 8 Feb. 1818. Murray MS., John Barrow to JM, 29 May 1820,
says when the article is printed return 'Dr. Holland's two volumes.' (The
reference may be to #538.) The article's author refers to books that Barrow
reviewed in #278 and #476. In his QR articles, it was Barrow's signature practice
to refer to his own works. See also <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> (Mar. 1844),
246-47. John Murray published Douglas's volume. </p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Barrow, but without
evidence.</span> </p>
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<p><a name="548"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">548</b>&nbsp;Article
3</font>. Parnell, <i>A Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review</i>, 360-73.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
John Wilson Croker</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Parnell'<i>s</i>
<i>A Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Croker, Shine cites JM III's Register and Brightfield
455. Shine also quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM, [Summer or early autumn
1820]: 'Pray ... remembrances to Mr Croker &amp; thank him for his Art.' Shine
notes that 'the expression &quot;his Art.&quot; could refer to #548, #555,
or 556.' In suggesting as an alternative attribution the co-authorship of
Croker and WG, Shine cites Clark 199-200. </span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following evidence is published here for the first
time. The article addresses William Parnell, <i>A Letter to the Editor of
the</i> <i>Quarterly Review</i> (1820). Parnell's volume was an answer to
#511, Croker's review of Parnell's novel <i>Maurice and Berghetta</i>. Murray
MS., John Wilson Croker to JM, 13 July 1820, says he has sent WG his article
on Parnell. Claimed by Croker in six of his Clements Library MS. lists and
included in the Cambridge University bound volumes of Croker's articles.</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Croker, but without
evidence.</span> </p>
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<p><a name="549"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">549</b>&nbsp;Article
4</font>. Grece, <i>Facts and Observations respecting Canada and the United
States of America; affording a Comparative View of the inducements to Emigration
presented in those Countries: to which is added an Appendix of Practical Instructions
to Emigrant Settlers in the British Colonies</i>; Stuart, <i>The Emigrant</i>'<i>s
Guide to Upper Canada, or, Sketches of the Present State of that Province,
collected from a Residence therein during the Years </i>1817<i>,</i> 1818<i>,</i>
1819, <i>Interspersed with Reflections</i>; Strachan, <i>A Visit to the Province
of Upper Canada, in </i>1819, 373-400.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
Richard Whately</b>. </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Emigration to
Canada.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Whately, Shine cites JM III's Register and Whately
211, 211n. [<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note:&nbsp; reprinted
in Whately's <i>Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews</i> (London, 1861), 211-45.]
Shine quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM [1820]: 'Is it possible to let Mr Whately
see the revise of Canada? He is at Oriel College.'</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following information is published here for the first
time. In the article's first sentence the reviewer refers back to #522, an article by
John Barrow.</p>
<p class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note: 'Grece's informative guide provides
details regarding agriculture, the cost of clearing land, and other useful
facts, and strongly advises emigrants to choose Canada over the United States.
The author himself emigrated to Canada in 1805, settling as a farmer near
Montreal and becoming involved in the unsuccessful attempt to cultivate hemp
in Lower Canada, a costly endeavour that was being encouraged by the imperial
and colonial governments. Casey I 1059. Dionne II 978. Gagnon I 1549. Howes
G-352. Kingsford pp. 61-62. Kress C.312. Lande 397. Morgan p. 161. Sabin 28480.
TPL 1169. DCB VII pp. 357-58.']</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Whately, but without
evidence. </span></p>
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<p><a name="550"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">550</b>&nbsp;Article
5</font>. Spence, <i>Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and
Men, collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and other eminent Persons
of his Time</i>. Now first published from the original Papers, with Notes
and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer; Spence, <i>Observations,
Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men</i>. Arranged with Notes by Edmund
Malone, Esq.; Bowles, <i>The Invariable Principles of Poetry, in a Letter
addressed to Thomas Campbell, Esq. occasioned by some Critical Observations
in his Specimens of British Poets, particularly relating to the Poetical Character
of Pope</i>, 400-34.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> Isaac D'Israeli</b>.&nbsp;
</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Spence'<i>s</i> <i>Anecdotes
of Books and Men.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to D'Israeli, Shine cites JM III's Register; Smiles
II 53 [<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: letter from D'Israeli
to JM, Oct. 1820, acknowledging payment for an article in this Number]; Greever
119n, 120, 127; <i>DNB</i>; and <i>CBEL</i> III 201. Shine says to see also
Grierson VI 310n, 311 and Greever 120. Shine also quotes from Murray MS.,
WG to JM, postmarked Ramsgate, Sunday noon [1820] [<i>Quarterly Review</i>
Archive editor's note: the Shine volume's error in recording the letter's
date is hereby corrected]: 'I hope you will bring Mr D'Israeli's revise ...
as I am stopped.' In suggesting John Wilson Croker as an alternative attribution,
Shine cites <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 578.&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following information is published here for
the first time. The article was the occasion for W. L. Bowles, <i>A Reply
to the charges brought by the Reviewer of Spence's Anecdotes in the Quarterly
Review from October 1820 against the last editor of Pope's Works; and Author
of "A Letter to Mr. Campbell," on "The Invariable Principles of Poetry."</i>
(1820) and, again, William L. Bowles, <i>Letters to Mr. T. Campbell, as far
as Regards Poetical Criticism, &c. &c. And the Answer to the Writer in the
Quarterly Review, as far as they Relate to the same Subjects; together with
an Answer to some Objections; and Further Illustrations</i> (1822). Article
#550 is referred to in #50<i>WI</i>, which is attributed to George Taylor.&nbsp;John
Murray published Malone's volume.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note: 'Malone's edition was published
on the same day as a rival version by S. W. Singer. Joseph Spence (1699-1768),
a friend of Pope and professor of poetry at Oxford, left a mass of manuscript
anecdotes, recollections, and notes of conversations with Pope and others.
He obviously intended his notes for posthumous publication and, after passing
through several hands, one group of manuscripts reached Malone and another
reached Singer. The manuscript of this title was made good use of after the
author's death (in 1768) by many who knew the Rev. Spence and the quality
of his literary criticism: Owen Ruffhead and Samuel Johnson in their lives
of Pope; Johnson in his <i>Life</i> of Addison; and Malone in his <i>Life</i>
of Dryden.']</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed in <i>ER</i>
#911, May 1820, probably by William Hazlitt.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: [in pencil] 'D'Israeli'.&nbsp;
</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to D'Israeli, but
without evidence.&nbsp;</span><br>
</p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="551"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">551</b>&nbsp;Article
6</font>. Hodgskin, <i>An Autumn near the Rhine</i>; Jacob, <i>Travels
in the North of Germany</i>; <i>A View of Agriculture, Manufactures, Statistics,
and State of Society of Germany, and Parts of Holland and France; taken during
a Journey through those Countries, in </i>1819; <i>Die wichtigsten Leben Momente
Karl Ludwig Sands aus Wunsiedel</i>; <i>Memoirs of Charles Lewis Sand, including
a Narrative of the Circumstances attending the Death of Augustus von Kotzebue.
Also a Defence of the German Universities</i>, 434-54.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
Robert William Hay</b>.&nbsp; </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>State of Society,
&amp;c. in Germany.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Hay, Shine cites JM III's Register. Shine also
quotes from the following letters. Murray MS., WG to JM, 23 Aug. [1820]: 'I
have but one copy of the Germany, &amp; thought I had desired you to let Mr
Hay have yours. ... Pray send him a revise. I can still improve it a little
by a trifling omission &amp; correction or two.' Murray MS., WG to JM, Sunday
noon [1820] [<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: the Shine volume's
error in recording the letter's date is hereby corrected]: 'Mr Hay, I suppose&nbsp;
will let you have his revise. I hope he will bear the abridgement well. I
have certainly done him a kindness; as indeed, I wished to do, for he is an
excellent character. ... There is yet a trifle to take out&#151;but I wait
for his papers.'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note on <i>Travels in the North of Germany</i>:
'After his early naval career, Hodgskin (1787-1869) embarked, in July 1815,
upon a three-year continental tour, with the object of collecting material
on the social and economic conditions of Europe in the aftermath of the Napoleonic
wars. The present work was the result. "[His] description and information
were accompanied by a sort of running commentary, consisting of a considered
criticism of the ideas of government and law" (Elie Hal<i>&eacute;</i>vy, <i>Thomas Hodgskin</i>,
pp. 42-43). The work is also concerned with questions of economic and social
justice. It contains an important passage (II, 97-8) expounding the socialist
viewpoint, centred on a labour theory of value, which was to be more fully
formulated in his pamphlet, <i>Labour defended against the Claims of Capital</i>,
published five years later, and from which Marxian economic thought later
germinated: "Capital is the produce of labour, and profit is nothing but a
portion of that labour, uncharitably exacted for permitting the labourer to
consume a part of what he has himself produced". See Hal<i>&eacute;</i>vy, op. cit., pp.
42-51, and Esther Lowenthal, <i>The Ricardian Socialists</i>, ch. 4. Goldsmiths'
22760; Kress C.551; Stammhammer III, 151; Menger, p. 203; Foxwell, <i>Bibliography
of the English Socialist School</i>, p. 19.']</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Hay, but without
evidence.</span> </p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="552"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">552</b>&nbsp;Article
7</font>. [John Matthews,] <i>Fables from La Fontaine, in English Verse</i>,
455-65.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> Henry Matthews</b>, possibly.
</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Fables from La
Fontaine.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Matthews, Shine cites only JM III's Register.
[<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: no evidence has been found
to support the attribution to Matthews.]</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">John Murray published the volume under review.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note, modified: 'Besides political
references (including more than one to John Cam Hobhouse) there are mentions
of Cobbett, Moore, and Scott. Matthews' fourteen children included Henry,
author of 'The Diary of an Invalid' (also 1820), and Byron's and Hobhouse's
early friend Charles Skynner Matthews.']</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Henry Matthews,
but without evidence.</span> </p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="553"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">553</b>&nbsp;Article
8</font>. Edward Daniel Clarke, <i>The Glass Blow-pipe, or Art of Fusion,
by burning the Gaseous Constituents of Water: giving the History of the Philosophical
Apparatus so denominated; the Proofs of Analogy in its operations to the Nature
of Volcanoes; together with an Appendix, containing an Account of Experiments
with this Blow-pipe</i>, 466-74.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author: </font>Edward
Daniel Clarke</b>, possibly. </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Clarke.&#151;<i>Glass
Blow-pipe.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Clarke, Shine cites only JM III's Register.
[<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: while aspects of the article
suggest self-promotion, no evidence has been found to support the attribution
to Clarke.]</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed in <i>ER</i>
#894, Oct. 1819, by William Brougham [<i>sic</i>].</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to 'Dr. Clarke,'
but without evidence.&nbsp;</span></p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="554"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">554</b>&nbsp;Article
9</font>. Mitchell, <i>The Comedies of Aristophanies</i>, 474-505.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
John Hookham Frere</b>.&nbsp; </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Mitchell'<i>s</i>
<i>Translations of Aristophanies.</i></p>
<p><span class="smallprint"><font color="#660000"><b>Notes:</b></font> In attributing
the article to Frere, Shine cites JM III's Register; Frere I 177-79, 179n,
II 178-214; <i>QR</i> XXXII 45, 45n; Eichler 52, 52n; and <i>DNB</i>. Shine
says to see also Frere III 39n. Shine quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM, [Sept.
or Oct. 1820]: 'I am a great deal embarrassed about Aristophanes. ... the
light matter ... though very good, seems out of place in our Review. ... yet
what will Frere say to cutting out four pages of what he probably considers
very highly! And yet, if it must be done, it must.' Shine notes that the article
is signed 'W' and surmises 'perhaps for Frere's pseudonym Whistlecraft.'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following evidence and information is published here
for the first time. WG cut from the article a passage he thought was too much
in the flippant acerbic tone of <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. Duke MS., WG
to George Canning, 3 Oct [1820]: 'You know, I suppose, that the Article on
Aristophanies is by Frere; it is the first that he has given me.' The article,
signed 'W' for Whistlecraft, Frere's pseudonym, is the first signed article
in the <i>Quarterly Review</i>. John Murray published Mitchell's volume.</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed in <i>ER</i>
#931, Nov. 1820, by D. K. Sandford.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: [in pencil] 'J. H. Frere'.&nbsp;
</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Frere, but without
evidence.</span> </p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="555"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">555</b>&nbsp;Article
10</font>. <i>Advice to Julia. A Letter in Rhyme</i>, 505-10.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
John Wilson Croker</b>.&nbsp; </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Advice to Julia.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Croker, Shine cites JM III's Register and Brightfield
455. Shine also cites the letter quoted at entry #546.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following evidence is published here for the first
time. Murray MS., JM to John Wilson Croker, 1 Sept. 1820: 'Julia is excellent
& just&#151;but it will damn my book.' Claimed by Croker in six of his Clements
Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge University bound volumes of
Croker's articles. John Murray published the volume under review.</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Croker, but without
evidence. </span></p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="556"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">556</b>&nbsp;Article
11</font>. Maria Edgeworth, <i>Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun
by himself and concluded by his Daughter, Maria Edgeworth</i>, 510-49.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
John Wilson Croker</b>, with T. Casey and William Gifford. </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b> <i>Memoirs of R. L. Edgeworth,
Esq.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Croker, Shine cites JM III's Register; Graham
41; and Brightfield 455. Shine says to see also Grierson V 25n, VI 95n. Shine
quotes from the following letters.&nbsp;Iowa MS., JM to Croker, n.d.: 'Rely
upon my silence about E&#151;you will do a service by taking it out of the
hand of Southey who is decided for praising them&#151;but extract what is
really interesting too&#151;I will send Seward's Life of Darwin [cf. <i>QR</i>
XXIII 534] &amp; any other thing that occur to us ... your present undertaking
will be inserted the moment it shall be received&#151;by the way would not
the slight apology with which you proposed to open the Article on E&#151;come
with effect at the End&#151;lead the Reader in&#151;not knowing what he is
to expect&#151;&amp; convince him &#151;but do &lt;not&gt; erect his bristles
against you at first ....' Murray MS., WG to JM, [Sept. or Oct. 1820]: 'I
saw our friend yesterday&#151;he has his reasons for wishing Edgeworth to
appear.' Murray MS., WG to JM, [1820]: 'I have written to Croker ... he will&nbsp;
be mortified by the omission of his Art.&#151;he talks of having some personal
object &amp;&#151;what can be done?'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The following evidence and information is published here
for the first time. Murray MS, JM to John Wilson Croker, 1 Sept. 1820: says
WG has edited 'Edgeworth' and has suggested some additions. Florida MS., Croker
to T. Casey, 20 July 1820: 'Now do me a review (postponing the Cathedral inquiries)[.]
Edgeworth's life published by his daughter is under the hands of one of our
reviewers who has applied to me as the only Irishman in the fraternity for
Irish facts&#151;but alas, I am wholly ignorant of the man & his life&#151;they
say the book is full of <u>lies</u>; those in the first vol <u>English</u>
lies, told by him self, & easily detected there; those in the 2d. vol, <u>Irish</u>
lies carefully wrapped up by the &lt;?&gt; &lt;?&gt; of the daughter. I wish
you would read the 2d. vol & give me as soon as possible your observations,
but, at all events get me some account of whether Edgeworth ever knew Langford
before 1796.&#151;Did he make any <span class="smallprint"><sub>^</sub><sup>other</sup></span> efforts
to get into parliament at any time&#151;did he take any political bribes&#151;what
was the <u>secret</u> of his <u>extraordinary conduct</u> thinking <u>for</u>
it&#151;voting against it. How &lt;?&gt; for the Johnstown&#151;These are
the kind of things which you are more likely to know or at least to get at,
than the foundations of Cathedrals; & so I hope for complete information.
Florida MS., Croker to Casey, 24 July 1820: 'I expect a &lt;bunch?&gt; of
Edgeworthiana from you&#151;you will continue to <u>direct</u> Adm[iralt]y.
Look in pages 223 &c. What was the secret of this affair ....' Iowa MS., WG
to JM, [n.d., no watermark], 'Burn this / My dear Sir / I read all the Proofs&#151;still
regretting even my gentle termination&#151;but it is better to hazard it,
than to continue the struggle, which I rather feared. I hope all is now done
in good humour, & that no more will be said on either side&#151;As for the
public, they will stare perhaps&#151;but one must keep our secret very strictly.'
[<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: the absence of a date to the
letter makes it impossible to know if article #556 is being referred to. The
letter may instead refer to #492.] Claimed by Croker in six of his Clements
Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge University bound volumes of
Croker's articles. </p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed in <i>ER</i>
#925, Aug. 1820, by Francis Jeffrey.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Croker, but without
evidence. </span></p>
<div>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
</div>
<p><a name="557"></a><font color="#660000"><b class="subtitle1">557</b>&nbsp;Article
12</font>. Yates, <i>The Church in Danger; a Statement of the Cause, and of
the probable Means of averting that Danger</i>; Yates, <i>The Basis of National
Welfare; considered in Reference chiefly to the late Prosperity of Britain,
and Safety of the Church of England</i>; <i>Substance of the Speech delivered
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Monday the </i>16<i>th of March, </i>1818<i>,
on proposing a Grant of One Million for providing Additional Places of Public
Worship in England</i>; Brewster, <i>A Sketch of the History of Churches in
England, to which is added a Sermon on the Honours of God in Places of Public
Worship</i>; Elmes, <i>A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool
on that Part of the Speech of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, which
recommended the Attention of Parliament to the Deficiency in the Number of
Places of Public Worship belonging to the Established Church</i>; Haydon,
<i>New Churches, considered with respect to the Opportunities they offer for
the Encouragement of Painting</i>, 549-91.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
Robert Southey</b>.&nbsp; </p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b> <i>New Churches.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class="smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class="smallprint">
In attributing the article to Southey, Shine cites JM III's Register; Cottle
242-43; Southey 577; and <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 578. Shine says to
see also Smiles II 43, 109, 110; Warter III 96, 99, 122-23, 164-65, 169, 190;
and Southey 379.&nbsp;Shine also quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM, [Sept.
or Oct. 1820]: 'This affair of Southey is a sad one&#151;I never saw his revise.
What I had was that which is now printed, from his first proof, so long ago.
... we cannot do without the Church Art.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published here for the
first time. The article appears in Southey's definitive MS. list of his <i>QR
</i>articles. Curry II 182n.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to Southey, but without
evidence. </span></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31537">Scholarly Resources</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-resource-index field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Resource:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/reference/qr/index.html">The Quarterly Review Archive</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/j-b-burges" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">J. B. 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Review</b></i><br />
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<ul>
<li><span class="redbold">This Number was published 21 Feb.
1818.</span> An original subscriber, Anne Cleaver, entered in
her copy the date '1818'.&nbsp; It was Cleaver's regular
practice to indicate the date she received her copy whenever
an issue of the <i>QR</i> was published significantly after
the date on the title page date [<i>Courier</i>
advertisement, 21 Feb. 1818; Cleaver's copy in the present
writer's collection]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">The date on the <i>Quarterly
Review</i>'s original front wrapper reads 'February
1818'</span> [Present writer's collection]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Gifford hoped to have published by
the opening of Parliament, 8 Feb.</span> [Murray MS., WG to
Robert William Hay, 1 Dec. 1817]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">This Number sold 12,071 on the
first day</span> [Harewood MS., WG to George Canning 27 Mar.
1818]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Starting with this Number, Murray
increased the remuneration for articles from 10 to 20 guineas
per sheet for 'every article of merit or interest'</span>
[Harewood MS., WG to George Canning, 21 Feb. 1818] Twenty
guineas is worth approximately &pound;850 in today's money
(see online resource, <em><a href=
"http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php" target=
"_blank">How Much is that Worth Today?</a></em>).<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Robert W. Hay appears to have had
an article in this Number</span> [Murray MS., WG to Robert
William Hay, 1 Sept. 1817, 1 Dec. 1817, and 5 Jan.&nbsp;
1818]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Barron Field offered an article on
the Botany Bay colony based on a manuscript book written by a
colonist.</span> Cf. #535 [Murray MS., Barron Field to JM, 13
Dec. 1817]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">John Barrow had three (and perhaps
four) articles in this Number</span><br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">John Hookham Frere was mortified
that his <i>Whistlecraft</i> was not noticed in the
<i>Quarterly Review</i>.</span> He thought a review of it
could well have been given and taken the place of #447, 'Sir
William Adams on Cataract.' 'What has the <i>Quarterly</i> to
do with cataracts,' Frere reasonably asked, 'or catheters, or
cataplasms, or with any subjects which are neither of a
political, national, or literary interest?' [quoted in
Smiles, II 22]<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Items for 1818 from <a href=
"http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/" target=
"_blank">Jack Lynch</a>'s literary resources page, slightly
modified and with additions:</span><br />
<br /></li>
<li style="list-style: none; display: inline">
<ul type="circle">
<li>The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle secures the
withdrawal of foreign armies from France. The Holy
Alliance nations institute common policies of reaction
against political dissent.<br /></li>
<li>Trial and imprisonment of English publisher Richard
Carlile.<br /></li>
<li>James Blundell, a London surgeon, performs the first
successful human blood transfusion.<br /></li>
<li>John Ross searches for the Northwest Passage and
explores Baffin Bay (see <i>QR</i> #451 and
503)<br /></li>
<li>Andrew Jackson's campaigns in Florida help secure the
remainder of that province for the United
States.<br /></li>
<li>Parliament authorises expenditure of &pound;1,000,000
to build churches (see <em>QR</em> #500).<br /></li>
<li>Byron publishes <i>Beppo</i> and <i>Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage</i>, IV (see <i>QR</i> #475); Keats publishes
<i>Endymion</i> (see <i>QR</i> #473); Scott publishes
<i>Rob Roy</i> and <i>The Heart of Midlothian</i>; on 1st
January Mary Shelley publishes the first edition of
<i>Frankenstein</i> (see <i>QR</i> #458); Percy Shelley
reissues <i>Laon</i> and <i>Cythna</i> as <i>The Revolt
of Islam</i> (see <i>QR</i> #510).<br />
<br /></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="redbold">Important or otherwise interesting
articles in this Number include: #441, #443, #445, #446,
#451</span><br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Number of definite attributions for
this issue: 8</span><br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Number of probable or possible
attributions for this issue: 4</span><br />
<br /></li>
<li class="redbold">Number of articles for which no
suggestion of authorship is made: 1</li>
</ul><!-- #EndEditable -->
<hr />
<p><a name="contents" id="contents"></a><b>CONTENTS,
IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS, AND HISTORICAL NOTES</b></p>
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<p><a name="441"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">441</b>&nbsp;Article 1</font>. Lord Holland,
<i>Some Account of the Lives and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega
Carpio, and Guillen de Catro</i>, 1-46.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> Robert Southey</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Lord
Holland'<i>s Life and Writings of Lope de Vega.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In attributing the article to Southey, Shine cites
JM III's Register; Cottle 242-43; Southey 363, 577; Warter IV
259; and <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 140. Shine says to see
also Southey 368 and Water III 78, 81.&nbsp;Shine quotes from
BL MS. 28603 [no folio number given], Robert Southey to William
Peachey, 24 Mar. 1818: 'You may have traced me in the account
of Lope de Vega in the last QR.'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article is in Southey's definitive
MS. list of his <i>QR</i> articles.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #326, Oct. 1806, by Francis
Jeffrey.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Southey, but without evidence.</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="442"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">442</b>&nbsp;Article 2</font>. Wilks, <i>Historical
Sketches of the South of India; in an Attempt to trace the
History of Mysoor; from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of
that State to the Extinction of the Mahomedan Dynasty in</i>
1799. Vols. ii and iii, 47-73.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> John Barrow</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Wilks'<i>s Sketches of the South of
India.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this article.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence was first
published in <i>VPR</i> 28. The first sentence of the article
contains a specific reference to #160, a review by Barrow of
Wilks's first volume and article #442 fulfills the promise of
the author of #160 to review Wilk's additional volumes when
they are published. There is also a specific reference on p.48
to #160. In his <i>QR</i> articles<i>,</i> it was Barrow's
signature practice to refer to his own works. On pp.72-73, the
author of #442 states he is a friend of the late Sir George
Staunton. Staunton was Barrow's patron and Barrow was a close
friend to Staunton's son. The topic of the article is Barrow's
preserve.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #568, Aug. 1811, by Alexander
Hamilton.</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="443"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">443</b>&nbsp;Article 3</font>. [Stendhal,] <i>The
Lives of Haydn and Mozart; with Observations on the Genius of
Metastasio, and the present State of Music in France and
Italy.</i> Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet. With
Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies,
73-99.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> Isaac
D'Israeli</b>, possibly, and possibly with John Ireland.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Lives of Haydn and Mozart.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence, published
here for the first time, draws weak but interesting connections
to D'Israeli and Ireland and gives reason to believe that the
article is not by Dr. Burney. Murray MS., WG to JM, [1818
watermark]: 'I cannot complete the revise until I receive Mr.
D'Israeli. I wished Dr. Ireland to see it ....' Note the
comment on p.80: 'We knew Haydn, and well remember the
circumstance of his sitting for the picture' (i.e., Joshua
Reynold's portrait). The author has access to Hadyn's
correspondence (see page 97). Cf. p.87: 'music and musical
instruments of the ancients; a subject that is still involved
in considerable obscurity, notwithstanding Dr. Burney's acute
and elaborate investigation.' Note reflections on the nature of
biography (pp.82, 91), an interest of D'Israeli's. Cf. p.98:
'the history of man [i.e., biography] appears to us more
interesting than that of music' (hardly what Burney would have
said).</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="444"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">444</b>&nbsp;Article 4</font>. Southey, <i>The
History of Brazil</i> Vol. ii, 99-128.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> Reginald Heber</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Southey'<i>s History of
Brazil.&mdash;Vol. II.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class=
"smallprint">&nbsp;In attributing the article to Heber, Shine
cites JM III's Register; <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 140;
Smiles II 38; and Heber I 456, 456n.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: the
book reviewed was sent to 'Revd. R. Heber' on 9 June 1817.
Heber I 482: Reginald Heber to Robert Wilmot Horton, 24 Sept.
1817, says he is reviewing Southey's <i>Brazil</i>. The first
volume of Southey's work was reviewed in #125, by
Heber.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Heber, but without evidence.</span>&nbsp;</p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="445"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">445</b>&nbsp;Article 5</font>. Bentham, <i>Plan of
Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a Catechism, with reasons
for each Article; with an Introduction, shewing the necessity
of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate Reform</i>,
128-35.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> Robert
William Hay</b>, possibly.</p>
<p><font color="#660000"><b>Running
Title:</b></font>&nbsp;Bentham'<i>s Plan of Parliamentary
Reform.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Robert William Hay appears to have had
an article in this Number. Murray MS., WG to Hay, 1 Sept. 1817,
refers to Hay's 'interesting article.' Murray MS., WG to Hay, 5
Jan. 1818: 'I'll keep the &lt;?&gt; for the Next No.' His last
known contribution is #397, published Nov. 1816. Compare Iowa
MS. (f. 290), JM to John Wilson Croker, Wednesday [n.d., but
1817 from internal evidence]: '[John William] Ward's Speech was
exceedingly happy&mdash;in wit and argument &amp;
Eloquence&mdash;very skillfully sprinkled so as to keep
attention alive during a long speech upon an exhausted
topic&mdash;He made the most excellent use of
<u>Bentham</u>&mdash;which &lt;Shaw&gt; sent him [Bentham] the
morning after. I had sent the first copy to you&mdash;his
extracts were exceedingly good and craftily
managed[.]'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed
in <i>ER</i> #857, Dec. 1818, by James Mackintosh.</p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="446"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">446</b>&nbsp;Article 6</font>. <i>Relation
Historique du Voyage de MM. de Humboldt et Bonpland</i>. Tome
premier, Seconde Partie, contenant les Feuilles 45 &agrave; 81,
la Table des Mati&egrave;res et l'Errata,
135-58.&nbsp;<b><font color="#660000">Author:</font> John
Barrow</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;De
Humboldt'<i>s Travels.&mdash;Part II.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In attributing the article to Barrow, Shine cites
<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> (Feb. 1844), 141; (March 1844),
246.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article's author refers to #368
and #394, both of which are by Barrow, and article #446 is
referred to in #474, #503, #585, #705, and by way of allusion
in #667, all of which are by Barrow. In his <i>QR</i>
articles<i>,</i> it was Barrow's signature practice to refer to
his own works.</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="447"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">447</b>&nbsp;Article 7</font>. Sir William Adams,
<i>A Practical Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent Failure
of the Operation of Depression, and of the Extraction of the
Cataract, as usually performed; with the Description of a
Series of new and improved Operations, by the practice of which
most of these Causes of Failure may be avoided. Illustrated by
Tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of
practice</i>, 158-68. <b><font color="#660000">Author:</font>
David Uwins</b>, possibly; OR ____ <b>Lamb</b>, possibly; OR
<b>Robert Gooch</b>, possibly.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Sir
William Adams <i>on Cataract.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class=
"smallprint">&nbsp;In the absence of guidance from JM III's
Register, Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence, published
here for the first time, offers suggestions, but the evidence
in each case is weak. Murray MS., Cash Book 1811-17, p. 174:
'11 Jan 1818 [<i>sic</i>] Q[UER]Y &lt;Adam&gt; on
Constitutional Diseases sent to Dr. Uwin Thavies Inn'. Murray
MS., Cash Day Book 1817-1819: debit entry re <i>QR</i> '11 Jan.
1817 to Lamb, on Constitutional diseases - 5.6'&nbsp; Gooch
also wrote in the <i>QR</i> on medical matters, but at a later
date.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">John Hookham Frere was mortified
that his <i>Whistlecraft</i> was not noticed in the <i>QR</i>.
He thought a review of it could well have taken the place of
this article. 'What has the <i>Quarterly</i> to do with
cataracts,' Frere reasonably asked, 'or catheters, or
cataplasms, or with any subjects which are neither of a
political, national, or literary interest?' [quoted in Smiles,
II 22]</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="448"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">448</b>&nbsp;Article 8</font>. Savigny, <i>Naufrage
de la Fr<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">&eacute;</span>gate
La M<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">&eacute;</span>duse,
faisant partie de l</i>'<i>Exp<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>dition du S<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>n<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>gal, en</i> 1816; <i>tous deux
Naufrag<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">&eacute;</span>s du
Radeau</i>, 168-76.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> John Barrow</b>, possibly.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Naufrage de la M<span lang="EN-CA"
xml:lang="EN-CA">&eacute;</span>duse.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. There is a specific reference on p.
175 and n. to #438, which is by Barrow. In his <i>QR</i>
articles<i>,</i> it was Barrow's signature practice to refer to
his own works. The article is much in Barrow's style. Robert
William Hay appears to have had an article in this Number
[Murray MS., WG to Robert Hay, 1 Dec. 1817, and 5 Jan. (1818)].
Murray MS., WG to Robert William Hay, 1 Sept. 1817, refers to
Hay's 'interesting article.' His last known contribution is
#397, published Nov. 1816.</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">The subject of this article was reviewed
in ER #842, Sept. 1818, by Richard Chenevix. Chenevix was a
frequent contributor to the <i>QR</i>.</p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="449"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">449</b>&nbsp;Article 9</font>. Godwin,
<i>Mandeville: a Tale of the seventeenth Century in
England</i>, 176-77.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> John Wilson Croker</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;Godwin'<i>s Mandeville.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In attributing the article to Croker, Shine cites
JM III's Register; Graham 41; and Brightfield 454.&nbsp;Shine
also quotes from Iowa MS., JM to [Croker], n.d.: 'I hope you
will send me a happy 6 pages on Godwin.'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following additional evidence
is published here for the first time. Claimed by Croker in six
of his Clements Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge
University bound volumes of Croker's articles.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Croker, citing unspecified letters.</span>&nbsp;</p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="450"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">450</b>&nbsp;Article 10</font>. Kendall, <i>An
Argument for construing largely the Right of an Appellee of
Murder, to insist on Trial by Battle; and also for abolishing
Appeals.</i> Second Edition, revised and enlarged, 177-98.
<b>Author not identified.</b></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Appeal of Murder and Trial by
Battle.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class=
"smallprint">&nbsp; In the absence of guidance from JM III's
Register, Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time.&nbsp;Murray MS. Cash Day Book
1817-1819, debit entry for Saturday, 21 Feb. 1818, sent 'to W
B': 'Brandreths Trials 2 vols. / Watsons Trials 8vo / Hones'
Trials 3 pts'&nbsp; Murray MS., WG to Robert William Hay, 1
Dec. 1817, says he hopes the next Number will be out by opening
of Parliament (8 Feb.). States that Hay's prospective article
bears a relation to Hay's other 'present elegant &amp; pleasing
Art.' Harewood MS., WG to George Canning, March 27 [1818
watermark] 'I will take care to let our coy friend know your
opinion. He is now in Scotland .... He was, of course,
handsomely paid....' Possibly William Macleod Bannatyne
(1743-1833; <i>DNB</i>), although unlikely as he was a Scottish
judge.</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="451"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">451</b>&nbsp;Article 11</font>. Chappell,
<i>Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson</i>'<i>s Bay, in His
Majesty</i>'<i>s Ship Rosamond, containing some Account of the
North-eastern Coast of America, and of the Tribes inhabiting
that remote Region</i>, 199-223.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> John Barrow</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>On the Polar Ice and Northern Passage
into the Pacific.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b><span class=
"smallprint">&nbsp;In attributing the article to Barrow, Shine
cites JM III's Register; Smiles II 45, 45n; <i>Gentleman's
Magazine</i> XXI 141; and Barrow 505-5, 506n. Shine also quotes
from Murray MS., WG to JM [1818]: 'I forgot to ask Mr Barrow
about the running title&mdash;<u>Passage into the Pacific</u>,
is not sufficiently explanatory....'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Barrow's series of articles in the
<i>QR</i> on polar exploration includes #451, #461, #474, #503,
#585, #667, #705, #97<i>WI</i>, and #163<i>WI</i>. Of these
articles, #451 is specifically referred to in #474, #503, #585,
#705, and by way of allusion in #667. Cf. #406. At pages 233
and 265 of #705, the author of the article specifically alludes
to his former articles in the <i>QR</i> on Captain Ross (#451
and #503). In his <i>QR</i> articles<i>,</i> it was Barrow's
signature practice to refer to his own works.</span></p>
<p class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note on Anthony Lockwood,
<em>A Brief Description of Nova Scotia, with Plates of the
Principal Harbors; including a Particular Account of the Island
of Grand Manan.</em> (1818). 'Prepared from records in the
office of the surveyor-general of Nova Scotia. The appendix,
pp103-134, contains an excerpt from the Quarterly Review, Oct.
1817, a review of Arctic Exploration and plans for the
expedition of Capt. John Ross, to explore a northwest passage
beyond Davis Strait.']</p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Barrow, but without evidence.&nbsp;</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="452"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">452</b>&nbsp;Article 12</font>. Malo, <i>Panorama
d</i>'<i>Angleterre, ou Eph<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>m<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>rides Anglaises politiques et
litt<span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang=
"EN-CA">&eacute;</span>raires</i>, 223-29.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> John Wilson Croker</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>&nbsp;M.
C. Malo&mdash;<i>Panorama d</i>'<i>Angleterre.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In attributing the article to Croker, Shine cites
JM III's Register; <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 141; and
Brightfield 454.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Claimed by Croker in five of his
Clements Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge
University bound volumes of Croker's articles.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Croker, but without evidence.&nbsp;</span></p>
<div>
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" />
</div>
<p><a name="453"></a><font color="#660000"><b class=
"subtitle1">453</b>&nbsp;Article 13</font>. <i>Anecdotes of the
Life of Richard Watson, D.D., Bishop of Landaff</i>, <i>written
by himself at different intervals, and revised in</i> 1814.
<i>Published by his Son</i>, Richard Watson, LL.B. Prebendary
of Landaff and Wells. 229-53.&nbsp;<b><font color=
"#660000">Author:</font> Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running
Title:</font></b>&nbsp;<i>Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of
Landaff.</i></p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In attributing the article to Whitaker, Shine
cites Nichols xxix and <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 141.
Shine also quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM, [Aug. 1818]:
'...Dr W ... I regard as the best and most forcible painter of
character in the country. His Watson, though it was improperly
timed, ... is the most striking Art. that I have seen on the
subject ....'&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register:
Bishop Burnet's <i>Memorial</i> was sent to 'Revd. Dr Whitaker'
on 12 Apr. 1815 (Burnet and Watson are compared on pp.230,
259-60).&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">Watson's <i>Memoirs</i> was the
subject of a review in <i>ER</i>, #836, June 1818, by Henry
Brougham.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Whitaker, but without evidence.</span></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31537">Scholarly Resources</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-resource-index field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Resource:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/reference/qr/index.html">The Quarterly Review Archive</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/lope-de-vega" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lope de Vega</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/john-hookham-frere" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Hookham Frere</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/isaac-disraeli" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Isaac D&#039;Israeli</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/john-henry-barrow" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Henry Barrow</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1747" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Reginald Heber</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/john-william" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John William</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/francis-jeffrey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Francis Jeffrey</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/william-peachey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">William Peachey</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/robert-william-hay" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robert William Hay</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/john-wilson-croker" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Wilson Croker</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-country-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Country:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/country/france" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">France</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/country/the-netherlands" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Netherlands</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/country/brazil" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Brazil</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/country/italy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Italy</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/country/india" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">India</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/country/ireland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ireland</a></li></ul></section>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:55:57 +0000rc-admin23705 at http://www.rc.umd.eduVol 1. No. 1 - Indexhttp://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/qr/index/01.html
<div class="field field-name-field-published field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2005-02-01T00:00:00-05:00">February 2005</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p align="center"><i><b class="title1">Quarterly
Review</b></i><br />
<b>VOLUME</b> <!-- #BeginEditable "VOL#" --><b>1</b>
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<!-- #BeginEditable "NUM#" --><b>1</b> <!-- #EndEditable -->
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Identification of Contributors, and Historical Notes</a> |
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"permissions.html">Permissions</a>
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<a name="notes" id="notes"></a><b>NOTES</b></p>
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<ul>
<li><font color="#660000"><b>This Number was published on 1
Mar. 1809</b></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span class="redbold">The Number was supposed to appear
23 Jan. 1809</span>, as announced in the <i>Monthly Literary
Advertiser</i>, 10 Jan. 1809. The desultory work habits of
its editor, William Gifford, and that of some of his
contributors led to delays. It was a pattern repeated
throughout Gifford's tenure, resulting in considerable
friction between publisher and editor. On that subject see
<a href="../features/pub_dates.html" target=
"_blank">Publication Dates of the <i>Quarterly
Review</i></a>. Having failed to meet the January deadline,
Murray announced the journal's appearance for the first day
of March. Walter Scott wrote to John Murray that he saw the
<em>Quarterly</em> advertised for that day. Indeed, the
following advertisement appeared in the <i>Courier</i> 29
Feb. 1809: 'Tomorrow, the first of March, will be published,
in 8vo. / price 5s, the First Number of the <i>Quarterly
Review</i> by John Murray, 32, Fleet-street, Hatchard,
Piccadilly, and Richardson, Cornhill, London; John Ballantyne
and Co. No.48, North Hanover-street, Edinburgh.' Copies of the journal were
sent to Scotland in late February (a copy was obtained by
Francis Jeffrey, editor of the <i>Edinburgh Review</i>,
probably via Archibald Constable, John Murray's some time
Edinburgh business partner). Murray wished to have the
<i>Quarterly</i> appear at the same time in London and
Edinburgh and for that reason delayed its London release for
a few days after it was printed (see Smiles, I 143, 145).
Ballantyne, Murray's Edinburgh distributor, to whom Murray
had granted a one-eighth share in the venture, had copies in
hand by 28th February. These were advance copies for himself
and Scott. That same day Murray sent to Ballantyne a supply
of 200 copies.<br />
<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Murray printed 3000 copies to
accommodate anticipated interest;</span> for the next Number
Murray expected to print between 1000 and 1500. For this
first Number, 850 were sent to Scotland [Smiles, I
147]<br /></li>
<li><span class="redbold">Imprint during Gifford's tenure
varies:<br />
For most of Gifford's tenure the printer was</span> C.
Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple Bar.<br />
Vol. 11 and 14 were not printed by Roworth.<br />
Vol. 2-8 were co-published with John Murray by Hatchard ...,
Richardson ... in London; vol. 2-10, 12 co-published by John
Murray and Parker in Oxford and Deighton in Cambridge; vol.
2, 4-10, 12 co-published with John Murray by William
Blackwood in Edinburgh; vol. 3 co-published with John Murray
by Ballantyne in Edinburgh; vol. 2-5 co-published with John
Murray by M.N. Mahon in Dublin; vol. 6-10, 12 co-published
with John Murray by J. Cummings in Dublin<br />
<br /></li>
<li><b><font color="#660000">This Number cost Murray
&pound;544</font></b>. Costs included &pound;70 for printing,
&pound;1 for wrappers, &pound;13 for corrections, &pound;1
for a cancelled article (11 pages), &pound;2 for night work,
&pound;156 for paper, &pound;43 for stitching, &pound;50 for
the editor, &pound;10 for books, postage, carriage, &pound;30
for advertising, &pound;163 for the articles. Murray's loss
after all 3000 copies were sold was &pound;19. Murray
reprinted the number, 1000 copies, on 14 July 1810. The
reprinting sold out. Murray printed a third edition of this
Number on 6 May 1811, a run of 1000 copies. The Third Edition
cost Murray &pound;123, including &pound;52 for printing,
&pound;54 for paper, &pound;14 for stitching, and &pound;3
for advertising. By November 1811, Murray still had on hand
800 copies. [Murray MS., accounts book]<br />
<br /></li>
<li>
<b><font color="#660000">Advertisement in <i>Courier</i>,
31 Jan. 1809, announcing the new journal:</font></b><br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<p>Speedily will be published, the First Number of THE
QUARTERLY REVIEW. By John Murray, 32, Fleet-street,
London. In announcing this New Literary Journal, the
Publisher requests that the First Number may be
considered as the Prospectus; while, however, he holds
out no promise, he can confidently assert, that the
<span class="subscript">a</span> Gentlemen <span class=
"subscript">a</span> who have engaged in this Review have
long enjoyed the esteem of the Public, and, could their
names be given without injury to the freedom, and the
truth of <span class="subscript">b</span> Criticism, they
would <span class="subscript">b</span> be an honourable
pledge <span class="subscript">c</span> of the
<span class="subscript">c</span> zeal, <span class=
"subscript">d</span> the <span class="subscript">d</span>
liberality, and <span class="subscript">e</span> the
<span class="subscript">e</span> attachment to the
interests of Literature <span class="subscript">f</span>,
with which this British Journal will be conducted
<span class="subscript">f</span>. <span class=
"smallprint">[Cp. <i>Monthly Literary Advertiser</i> No.
45 (10 Jan. 1809) variants (between the corresponding red
letters in the text, substitute the following):
<span class="subscript">aa</span> Authors; <span class=
"subscript">bb</span> Criticism, would; <span class=
"subscript">cc</span> to their; <span class=
"subscript">dd</span> their; <span class=
"subscript">ee</span> their; <span class=
"subscript">ff</span>]</span></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span class="redbold">Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe</span>,
a friend of Walter Scott, submitted an article for <i>QR</i>
Number I, but Gifford quietly set it aside [Grierson, I 173,
173n]. It is possible that Sharpe's is the cancelled article
recorded in Murray's accounts book (see note above)<br />
<br /></li>
<li>
<b><font color="#660000">Items for 1809 from <a href=
"http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/" target=
"_blank">Jack Lynch</a>'s literary resources page, slightly
modified and with additions:</font></b><br />
<ul>
<li>European wars, the American embargo of trans-Atlantic
trade, and the continental blockade leave British credit
and industry at a dangerously low ebb. General European
financial collapse seems increasingly likely.</li>
<li>The death of Sir John Moore in the Battle of Coruna
(16 Jan. 1809) leads to Wellington's appointment as
commander of British troops in the Iberian peninsula.
(See <i>QR</i> #46.)</li>
<li>France and Austria at war. Vienna falls and Napoleon
issues his famous decree annexing the Papal States and
stripping the Papacy of temporal rule. Pope Pius VII
responds by excommunicating the French Emperor. The Pope
is taken prisoner. Napoleon divorces Josephine.</li>
<li>Mutiny in Madras, India (see <i>QR</i> #137)</li>
<li>Spencer Perceval becomes Prime Minister (Oct. 1809 -
May 1812).</li>
<li>London Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews founded; Society for Promoting Observance of the
Sabbath founded; British and Foreign Bible Society and
Christian Missionary Society gain wide notoriety and
support.</li>
<li>Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, and William
Gladstone born this year.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</li>
<li><span class="redbold">Important or otherwise interesting
articles in this Number include:</span> #1 (the <i>QR</i>'s
opening salvo against the <i>Edinburgh Review</i>) and
17<br />
<br /></li>
<li><font color="#660000"><b>Number of definite attributions
for this issue: 16</b></font><br />
<br /></li>
<li><b><font color="#660000">Number of probable or possible
attributions for this issue: 2</font></b></li>
</ul><!-- #EndEditable -->
<hr />
<p><a name="contents" id="contents"></a><b>CONTENTS,
IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS, AND HISTORICAL NOTES</b></p>
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<hr />
<p><a name="1"></a> <b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">1</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
1</font>. <i>Affaires d'Espagne, Nos. 1 to
5&mdash;Conf&eacute;deration des Royaumes et Provinces
d'Espagne contre Buonaparte, Nos. 1 to 6, &amp;c.</i>, 1-19.
<b><font color="#660000">Authors:</font></b> <b>George
Ellis</b>, with George Canning.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000">Running Title:</font></b>
<i>Affairs d'Espagne</i>.</p>
<p><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></font></b> <span class=
"smallprint">In co-attributing the article to Ellis and
Canning, Shine cites JM III's Register; Smiles I 118; and
Holloway in <i>RES</i> X 61, 61n. Shine also quotes from Murray
MS., WG to JM [29 Nov. 1808 postmark], says he has seen Canning
and that 'Mr. Ellis has readily undertaken the Spanish article
....'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time; the evidence clarifies Ellis's and
Canning's respective roles in producing the article. Murray
MS., Paid Contributors List for issue Number 1: the same person
was paid for articles 1 and 18. Ellis is the author of article
18 (#18). NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809:
'Your excellent article is in hand: it will immediately follow
that of G. Ellis&mdash;for which space is kept, as he is
anxious to have the latest information from Spain.' Murray MS.,
George Ellis to JM, [Feb. 1809], speaks of this article as his.
BL MS. 28099 (f.86), WG to Ellis, 15 Nov. 1810: 'I read over
yesterday your first Article on Spain with great delight ....'
(Ellis wrote a second article on Spain, #46.)</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The article indirectly answers
Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham's October 1808 <i>Edinburgh
Review</i> article, 'Don Cevallos on the French Usurpation of
Spain' (<i>ER</i> #439). That article, forthright in its
declaration of republican principles, contributed to the
formation of the QR. Other factors were involved, however, such
as the commercial rivalry of John Murray with the publisher of
the <i>Edinburgh Review</i>, Archibald Constable, Walter
Scott's and other writers' anger over negative or unfair
reviews in the <i>Edinburgh</i>, and Robert Southey's and other
religious-minded persons' upset over the <i>Edinburgh</i>'s
anti-Christian bias. In the fall of 1808, WG asked Robert
Southey to write on the subject of Spanish resistance. George
Canning and John Murray were ready to object as they did not
trust Southey's politics, but Southey declined in any case. He
desired instead to answer Sydney Smith's <i>Edinburgh
Review</i> articles on evangelical missions to India, which he
did in article #17.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: [in
pencil] 'G. Ellis'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Ellis, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="2"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">2</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
2.</font> Cromek, <i>Reliques of Robert Burns, consisting
chiefly of original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations
on Scottish Songs</i>, 19-36. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> Walter Scott</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Reliques of Robert
Burns</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Scott, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Smiles I 152; Lockhart III 56, IX 27; Cunningham 315;
Douglas I 130; Graham 41; and Paston 8n.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 2, 13,
15, and 16. Scott is the author of these other articles. NLS
MS. 3878 (ff.236-42), WG to Walter Scott, 30 Dec. 1809, for the
second printing of this Number he has made a few verbal changes
to Scott's article on Burns; '[the article] is a great
favourite of mine'. NLS MS. 3878 (ff.239-42), WG to Scott,
[Dec. 1808 or Jan. 1809]: 'Campbell, Murray tells me, will be
reviewed by Jeffrey. Hoare juvate&mdash;If you could oppose him
with advantage in Burns&mdash;and all here say that you have
more novelty, more feeling, and more identity&mdash;what may
not be done on your own ground.' (Cp. #19.) Murray MS., George
Ellis to JM, 3 Mar. 1810, attribution to Scott. Murray MS.,
1803-23 Letter Book, JM to Scott, 5 Mar. 1809 [copy]: 'I have
the honour to inclose a draft for &pound;&mdash; [for] your
contribution to the first Number of the Quarterly Review.' See
also citation at #1 of NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG to Scott, 20 Jan.
1809.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #440, Jan. 1809, by Francis
Jeffrey.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: [in
pencil] 'W. Scott'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Scott, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="3"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">3</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
3.</font> Edwards and Orford, <i>Anecdotes of Painters who have
resided or been born in England; with Critical Remarks on their
Productions by Edward Edwards, deceased, late Teacher of
Perspective, and Associate in the Royal Academy; intended as a
Continuation to the Anecdotes of Painting by the late Earl of
Orford</i>, 36-49. <b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> John
Hoppner</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Anecdotes of
Painters</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class="smallprint">Note:</span></b>
<span class="smallprint">In attributing the article to Hoppner,
Shine cites JM III's Register; Hoppner xxiii; and Water II
145.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence and
information is published here for the first time. Murray MS.,
Book Loans Register: the book reviewed was sent to
'&lt;<s>Hoppner</s>&gt;' on 25 Nov. 1808. NLS MS. 3878 (f.6),
WG to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809: 'I have a review ... of
Memoirs of Painters, by a man with whom I hope to bring you
acquainted, if Providence spares his life, for he is now very
ill'. (Hoppner died 23 Jan. 1810.) NLS MS. 3878 (ff.239-42),
George Ellis told Walter Scott he disliked only this article in
the number but that Southey especially liked it.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>:
'Hoppner'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Hoppner, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="4"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">4</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
4.</font> Owenson [Lady Sydney Morgan], <i>Woman; or Ida of
Athens. By Miss Owenson, Author of the "Wild Irish Girl," "The
Novice of St. Dominick," &amp;c.</i>, 50-52. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> William Gifford</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Woman; or, Ida of
Athens</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Gifford, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Jennings I 100; Grierson II 166n, 384n; Clark 184,
193, 196; and Brightfield 332.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 4 and 12.
Gifford is the author of #12. Murray MS., Book Loans Register:
this book was sent to 'Mr G' on 25 Nov. 1808. Murray MS,
1802-23 Letter Book, JM to WG, 7 Mar. 1809 [copy]: 'I inclose a
draft for &pound;3.5.7 1/2 for articles 4 &amp; 12 ... with the
other drafts ... to every other contributor ....'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Gifford, and with the following note: 'See Ellis letter 3d Mar
1809'.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="5"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">5</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
5.</font> Wilkins, <i>A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language;</i>
Carey, <i>A Grammar of the Sungskrit Language, composed from
the works of the most esteemed Grammarians; to which are added
examples for the exercise of the Student, and a complete List
of the Dhatoos or Roots</i>; Colebrooke, <i>Grammar of the
Sanskrit Language</i>, 53-69. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> Sharon Turner</b>, with John Shore,
Lord Teignmouth.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Grammars of the
Sanskrita Language</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Turner, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Smiles I 152; and Warter II 145.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following information,
published here for the first time, confirms Turner and suggests
Lord Teignmouth's role. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: one of
the books reviewed was sent to 'T' on 5 Nov. 1808. NLS MS. 3878
(f.6), WG to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809, says he has had to
return a 'Rev. of the Sanskrit Grammar, from a suspicion, in
which I was confirmed by Lord Teignmouth, that the writer was
not sufficiently deep in the language.' Murray MS., George
Ellis to JM, [Feb. 1809], speaks of this article as Turner's.
Teignmouth, a former Governor General of India, was an expert
on Sanskrit and a friend of WG. In late 1808 he had promised to
support the <i>QR</i>. Sanskrit is spelled in the article's
head note as above.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note regarding
Wilkins: The first English grammar of the Sanskrit language to
be printed outside India. The Devanagari types used are cut and
cast by the author himself. Wilkins was considered by his
contemporaries the first and foremost Sanskrit scholar in
Europe. His grammar was commenced in India, and then continued
at Hawkhurst, and finally issued mainly for use at Haileybury
in 1808. See Windisch 22-23. Vater p.332. Thonnelier 1480. De
Sacy, Catalogue de Bibl. ii, 2933.']</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
covered in <i>ER</i> #445, Jan. 1809, by Alexander
Hamilton.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'S.
Turner'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Turner, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="6"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">6</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
6.</font> Stawell, <i>A Translation of the Georgics of Publius
Virgilius Maro, with the Original Text, and Notes critical and
illustrative of Ancient and Modern Husbandry</i>; Deare, <i>The
Georgics of P. Virgiilus Maro, Translated into English Blank
Verse</i>, 69-77. <b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> James
Pillans</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Translations of the
Georgics of Virgil</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Pillans, Shine cites JM III's
Register. Shine also quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM [Jan.
1809; notation on letter in JM II's hand: 'Inclosing Pillan's
article on Virgil's Georgics-for the printer.']: 'I enclose the
article on Virgil .... This article is not quite correct; what
it wants, however, may be done in the Proofs.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., James Pillans to JM, 29
Dec. 1809: 'I expect to be ready by the middle of the week.'
NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809: 'I have a
review of a translation of Virgils Georgics, very palpable'.
Note that in the article's head note Virgilius is spelled
Virgiilus, as above.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Pillans, and with the following note: 'J P's letter Dec 29 1808
among Gifford's'.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="7"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">7</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
7.</font> Zouch, <i>Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir
Philip Sidney</i>, 78-92. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> Isaac D'Israeli</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Life and Writings
of Sir Philip Sidney</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to D'Israeli, Shine cites JM III's
Register; <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 137; and Graham
41.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: this
book was sent to 'I' on 25 Nov. 1808. NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG to
Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809: 'I have a review ... of Zouch's
Life of Sidney, which I have patched and mended as well as I
can ....'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'I. D
Israeli'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
D'Israeli, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="8"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">8</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
8.</font> Cockburn, <i>The Credibility of the Jewish Exodus,
defended against some Remarks of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and the
Edinburgh Reviewers</i>, 92-96. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> John Ireland</b>, possibly.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Cockburn on the Old
Testament</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
querying its attribution to Ireland, Shine cites JM III's
Register. Shine also quotes from Murray MS, WG to JM, [6 Feb.
1809; notation on letter in JM II's hand: 'Sending articles by
Drs Ireland and Young.']: 'I send you the Drs which I have
carefully corrected; &amp; La Place ... corrected in all but
the pointing .... I trust Dr Young will be a powerful combatant
for us.' [<i>Quarterly Review</i> Archive editor's note: The
reference to Ireland in this letter could be to article
#7.]</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: queries
attribution to D'Israeli, and with the following note: 'See W
G's letter Feb 6'.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="9"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">9</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
9.</font> <i>Speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot
Curran, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, on the late very
Interesting State Trials</i>, 96-107. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> William Erskine</b>, with Walter
Scott.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Curran's
Speeches</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Erskine, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Grierson II 179; and Smiles I 118-19. [The references
in Grierson and Smiles are to Walter Scott to JM, 14 Dec. 1808:
'My friend W. Erskine talks of reviewing Curran's Speeches
&amp; McNeills new poem ....'] Shine also cites Smiles I 148:
Erskine has received payment.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence, which
indicates Scott's role, is published here for the first time.
NLS MS. 3878 (ff.239-42), WG to Walter Scott, [Dec. 1808 or
Jan. 1809], says he is pleased William Erskine has agreed to
write for the Review. NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG to Scott, 20 Jan.
1809: 'Of your little parcel by this day's post, I have only
read the Review of Curran: it is admirable, and your addition
(for which I thank you) most apposite, and
desirable.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">John Philpot Curran (1750-1817),
Irish judge, famous orator. Protestant, who stood for Catholic
liberties. Called to the Irish bar 1775. M.P. from 1783, member
of Grattan's party, advocated parliamentary and political
reform. Led defence of the Irish insurrectionaries of 1798.
Pugnacious and independent, fought five duels in his lifetime.
Despite its title, the volume under review contains a
collection of speeches that spans Curran's judicial and
parliamentary career.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #434, Oct. 1808, by Henry
Brougham.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: [in
pencil] 'Erskine'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Erskine, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="10"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">10</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
10.</font> Laplace, <i>Th&eacute;orie de l'Action Capillaire;
Suppl&eacute;ment au dixi&egrave;me Livre du Trait&eacute; de
M&eacute;canique C&eacute;leste</i>, 107-12. <b><span class=
"redbold">Author:</span> Thomas Young</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Laplace's
Supplement to the M&eacute;canique C&eacute;leste</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Young, Shine cites JM III's
Register, Smiles I 152, and various sources that duplicate
Young's definitive MS. list of his QR articles. Shine also
quotes from Murray MS, WG to JM, [6 Feb. 1809; notation on
letter in JM II's hand: 'Sending articles by Drs Ireland and
Young.']: 'I send you the Drs which I have carefully corrected;
&amp; La Place ... corrected in all but the pointing .... I
trust Dr Young will be a powerful combatant for us.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article appears in Young's
definitive MS. list of his QR articles published in [Hudson
Gurney], <i>Memoir of ... Young</i> (1831), 56-60. Murray MS.,
JM III's notes in wooden 'QR' box: 'Thomas Young to JM, 29 Jan.
1809, encloses an article for the Review.' Murray MS., George
Ellis to JM, 3 Mar. 1810, attribution to Young.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">Young's pioneering etymological
labours made possible Champollion's breaking the seal on
Egyptian hieroglyphs. For a brief comment on British attitudes
toward Continental science that explains Young's attitude in
this article, connect offsite to <a href=
"http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/19thCentury/RouseBall/RB_Engl19C.html"
target="_blank"><u>The Introduction of Analysis into
England</u></a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">Laplace's <i>System of the
World</i> was reviewed in <i>ER</i> #504, Jan. 1810, by John
Playfair.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'Dr
Young'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Young, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="11"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">11</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
11.</font> Pinkerton, <i>An Essay on Medals; or an Introduction
to the Knowledge of Ancient and Modern Coins and Medals,
especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain</i>, 112-31.
<b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> Barr<i>&eacute;</i>
Charles Roberts</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Pinkerton on
Medals</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Roberts, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Smiles I 151; Warter II 145; QR XII 519; <i>DNB</i>;
and Bedford xxxix, 336-55. Shine also quotes from Murray MS.,
WG to JM, 9 Feb. 1809: [notation on letter in JM II's hand:
'Article on Pinkerton.']: 'I send a very clever article by Mr
Roberts.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Barr<i>&eacute;</i>
Charles Roberts to JM, 10 Mar. 1809: [notation on letter in JM
II's hand: 'ack. py't for art. 11 in QR No 1'].</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">[Bookseller's note: 'An important
and relatively early work on coins medals and medallions in the
ancient and then modern world including chapters on
conservation and counterfeits.']</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">Pinkerton's <i>Geography</i> was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #351, Apr. 1807, by William
Stevenson.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Roberts, and with the following note: 'Feb 9 W G writes J M 'I
send you a very clever article by Mr Roberts'.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="12"></a><b><font color="#660000" class=
"subtitle1">12</font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
12.</font> <i>Public Characters of</i> 1809-10, 132-33.
<b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> William
Gifford</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Public
Characters</i> of 1809-10.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class="smallprint">Note:</span></b>
<span class="smallprint">In attributing the article to Gifford,
Shine cites only JM III's Register.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 4 and 12.
Gifford was the author of #4. Murray MS., Book Loans Register:
the book reviewed was sent to 'Mr G' on 25 Nov. 1808. Murray
MS, 1802-23 Letter Book, JM to WG, 7 Mar. 1809 [copy]: 'I
inclose a draft for &pound;3.5.7 1/2 for articles 4 &amp; 12
... with the other drafts ... to every other contributor ....'
WG is one of the 'public characters' on display in the book
under review.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>:
'Gifford'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Gifford, citing JM II's marked QR.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="13"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">13</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
13.</font> Southey, <i>Chronicle of the</i> Cid Rodrigo Diaz de
Bivar, <i>the Campeador, from the Spanish</i>, 134-53.
<b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> Walter Scott</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Chronicle of the
Cid</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Scott, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Robberds II 266, 299; Lockhart III 56, IX 276; Warter
II 307; <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI 136; Smiles I 118-19;
Southey 245, 251; and Warter II 145.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 2, 13,
15, and 16. Scott is the author of these other articles.
Grierson II 157 quotes Scott to JM, 28 Jan. [1809]: 'I expect
McNeile &amp;c without delay &amp; will finish the Cid &amp; I
think Swift also this week.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Scott, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="14"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">14</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
14.</font> Accum, <i>A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy &amp;c
&amp;c</i>, 153-61. <span class="redbold">Author:</span> John
Kidd, probably.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Accum on
Mineralogy</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Kidd, Shine cites only JM III's
Register.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following information is
published here for the first time. Murray MS., JM III's notes
in wooden 'QR' box: '1809 ... <u>W</u> <u>Gifford</u> ... Feb.
1 Dr Kidd &amp; Dean of Ch[rist]: Ch[urch]
enlisted.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'Dr Kidd
Oxford.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Kidd, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="15"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">15</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
15.</font> Barrett, <i>An Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life
of Swift, by the Rev. John Barrett, D. D</i>[.] <i>and Vice
Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. To which are subjoined
various Pieces ascribed to Swift, Two of his original Letters,
and Extracts from his Remarks on Bishop Burnett's History</i>,
162-77. <b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> Walter
Scott</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Life of
Swift</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
attributing the article to Scott, Shine cites JM III's
Register; Grierson II 161n, VI 200, 200n; Douglas I 130; Paston
8, 8n; and says to see also Smiles I 142; Grierson II 146,
200n; and Warter II 145.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 2, 13,
15, and 16. Scott is the author of these other articles. Murray
MS., Book Loans Register: the book reviewed was sent to 'Mr S'
on 25 Nov. 1808. Grierson II 161 quotes Walter Scott to JM, 2
Feb. 1809: 'I enclose the promised <u>Swift</u> &amp; am now I
think personally out of your debt though I will endeavour to
fill up the gaps if I do not receive the contributions I expect
from others ....' Grierson II 161 also quotes Scott to JM, 4
Jan. 1809: 'I will review the Addenda to Swift as all the
materials are fresh in my head.' See also evidence at
#13.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'W
Scott'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Scott, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="16"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">16</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
16.</font> Carr, <i>Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through
Scotland in</i> 1807. <i>To which is prefixed an Explanatory
Address to the Public upon a recent Trial</i>, 178-93.
<b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> Walter Scott</b>, with
William Gifford.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Carr's Caledonian
Sketches</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class=
"smallprint">Notes:</span></b> <span class="smallprint">In
co-attributing the article to Scott and Gifford, Shine cites JM
III's Register; Lockhart III 56-57; Scott; Grierson II 101-2,
102n; Douglas I 130; Paston 8n2; and says to see also Grierson
II 157-58; Smiles I 117, 144; and Warter II 145. Shine also
quotes from the following two letters. Murray MS., WG to JM,
[18 Feb. 1809]: 'I send you the whole of Sir John with the
exception of p.13 &amp; 14 between which what little I have to
say must come in.... I will certainly finish Sir
John&mdash;perhaps two pages or certainly two and half will
suffice.' Murray MS., WG to JM, [18 Feb. 1809]: 'The knight's
absurdities are ... gross and frequent ... I am tired. Perhaps
the enclosed are quite sufficient .... Our friend's last scrap
I do not understand. He appears to have mistaken Sir John.... I
thought of writing more, but tis impossible.... You know mine
comes in after page 12.'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following information is
published here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid
Contributors List for issue Number 1: the same person was paid
for articles 2, 13, 15, and 16. Scott is the author of these
other articles. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: the book
reviewed was sent to 'Mr S' on 25 Nov. 1808. NLS MS. 3878
(f.6), WG to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809: 'You will have, by the
Mail of this evening, the Scottish Expedition of the far-famed
Sir J. Carr. This promises well for the world. He is, I
understand, a good natured fool ....' Grierson II 157 quotes
Scott to JM, 28 Jan. [1809]: 'Tomorrow I send him [Gifford] a
whiskey-frisky article on Sir John ....' NLS MS. 3878
(ff.239-42), WG to Scott, [Mar. 1809]: 'Sir John Carr has set
half the town a grinning&mdash;Can not you find out some poor
but presumptuous devil to laugh at again? Why will not
blockheads be more alert, and do something to serve
us?'</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">Carr's <i>Tour in Holland and
Germany</i> was reviewed in <i>ER</i> #343, July 1807, by R.
Lovell Edgeworth. Two earlier works by Carr were also reviewed
in the <i>ER</i> (see <i>WI</i>).</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'W
Scott'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Scott, but without evidence</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="17"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">17</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
17.</font> <i>Periodical Accounts relative to the Baptist
Missionary Society</i>; Major John Scott Waring&mdash;Twining,
<i>Vindication of the Hindoos, &amp;c. &amp;c.</i>, 193-226.
<b><span class="redbold">Author:</span> Robert Southey</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Account of the
Baptist Missionary Society</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class="smallprint">Note:</span></b>
<span class="smallprint">In attributing the article to Southey,
Shine cites JM III's Register; Warter II 144; Smiles I 153;
Cottle 242-43; Southey 254, 257, 577; Robberds II 275-76;
Grierson II 196, 236, 236n; <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> XXI
137; Graham in PQ II 97; Clark 179; Holloway in RES X 62;
Simmons 129; and says to see also Warter II 114, 148; Southey
245, 248, 255; Grierson II 160; Smiles I 116, 117, 146; and
Wilberforce II 264. Shine also quotes from the following two
letters. BL Add. MS. 30928 [no folio number given], Robert
Southey to Charles Danvers, 5 Jan. 1809: 'I have been writing a
long article for the new Review.... What I have been writing
for it is a defence of the Baptist Missionaries....' Murray
MS., WG to JM, [26 Feb. 1809]: ' In Southey's article there are
two slight alterations which ... you might make. <i>Sieks</i>
is in one place misspelt <i>Seeks</i> and <i>Persic</i> should
be printed instead of <i>Persian</i>.' [Cp. pp. 212 and 225 of
the article.]</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article appears in Southey's
definitive MS. list of his QR articles. NLS MS. 3878 (f.6), WG
to Walter Scott, 20 Jan. 1809: 'I had forgot [in listing
articles for this Number] the Missionaries, which is
exceedingly interesting; and on which I shall commit as few
depredations as possible, mindful of the hint which you so
kindly gave me. S. has rushed ense stricto on the Edin[burgh].
R[eview]. This shall be remedied.' Murray MS., George Ellis to
JM, 3 Mar. 1810, attribution to Southey.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The article addresses, by answering
the anti-missionary pamphlet listed in the head note, a series
of articles by Sydney Smith in the <i>Edinburgh Review</i>.
Smith had satirized evangelicalism, India missionaries, and the
influence of the Clapham Sect (evangelical parliamentarians
under William Wilberforce, popularly known as the Saints) on
missionary work in India. Smith's articles are: ER 11 (Jan.
1808):340-62; 12 (Apr. 1808): 151-81; 14 (Apr. 1809): 40-50. In
two of these articles, Smith took the 1806 Vellore Mutiny in
India as occasion for attacking India missions in particular
and evangelicalism in general. Sepoys at Vellore had killed a
number of British soldiers and expatriates. British authorities
had covered up their own culpability in the affair (they had
attempted to replace the Sepoys' turban with British military
headgear) by shifting the blame to Baptist missionaries at
Serampore for supposedly inflaming the Sepoys' religious zeal.
A pamphlet war in England had ensued between evangelical and
anti-missionary factions in the East India Company: Scott
Waring and Thomas Twining for the anti-missions faction, and,
for the evangelicals, two members of the Clapham Sect, Charles
Grant, the powerful East India Company chairman, and Lord
Teignmouth, former Governor General of India. Partly because he
was offended by Smith's articles, in early 1808 Southey refused
Walter Scott's request that he write for the <i>Edinburgh
Review</i>. Pointing to the anti-Christian bias of the journal,
and citing Smith's articles in particular, Southey attempted to
shame Scott into breaking his association with the
<i>Edinburgh</i>. Scott was deeply affected by Southey's action
and arguments. These circumstances played a considerable role
in the formation of the QR.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>:
'Southey'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Southey, but without evidence.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><a name="18"></a><b><font color="#660000"><span class=
"subtitle1">18</span></font></b> <font color="#660000">Article
18.</font> Vaughan, <i>Narrative of the Siege of Zaragoza</i>.
Second Edition, 226-31. <b><span class="redbold">Author:</span>
George Ellis</b>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold">Running Title:</b> <i>Vaughan's Siege of
Zaragoza</i>.</p>
<p><b class="redbold"><span class="smallprint">Note:</span></b>
<span class="smallprint">In attributing the article to Ellis,
Shine cites only JM III's Register.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Paid Contributors List for
issue Number 1: the same person was paid for articles 1 and 18.
Ellis was the author of article #1. Murray MS., George Ellis to
JM, 1 Feb. 1809, promises an article on this
subject.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subjects of the article, the
siege of Zaragoza, and its defence by the Spanish soldier
Palafox, are celebrated by William Wordsworth in
'Hail&mdash;Zaragoza! If with unwet eye' and 'Ah! where is
Palafox&mdash;Nor tongue nor pen'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">The subject of this article was
reviewed in <i>ER</i> #468, Apr. 1809, by Henry
Brougham.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM II's marked <i>QR</i>: 'Geo
Ellis'.</span></p>
<p><span class="smallprint">JM III's Register: attribution to
Ellis, but without evidence.</span></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31537">Scholarly Resources</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-resource-index field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Resource:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/reference/qr/index.html">The Quarterly Review Archive</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/sharon-turner" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sharon Turner</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/george-ellis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">George Ellis</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/isaac-disraeli" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Isaac D&#039;Israeli</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/william-gifford" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">William Gifford</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/william-erskine" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">William Erskine</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/teignmouth" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Teignmouth</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/john-philpot-curran" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Philpot Curran</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/don-cevallos" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Don Cevallos</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/francis-jeffrey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Francis Jeffrey</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/james-pillans" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">James Pillans</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/philip-sidney" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Philip Sidney</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/walter-scott" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Walter Scott</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/george-canning" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">George Canning</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/robert-burns-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robert Burns</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/henry-brougham" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Henry Brougham</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/thomas-young" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Thomas Young</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/john-murray" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Murray</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/john-hoppner" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">John Hoppner</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-city-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">City:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/city/athens" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Athens</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/city/london" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">London</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/city/edinburgh" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Edinburgh</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-country-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Country:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/country/spain" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Spain</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/country/india" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">India</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/country/ireland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ireland</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-continent-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Continent:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/continent/europe" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Europe</a></li></ul></section>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:33:08 +0000rc-admin23670 at http://www.rc.umd.eduHandlist of Author Attributions by Article Serial Number - Finding Aidshttp://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/qr/findingaids/attributions.html
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<p>The following list summarizes the results of original research identifying the authors of unsigned contributions to the <i>Quarterly Review</i>. The list covers the period 1809-24, the tenure of the journal's first editor, William Gifford. As pointed out elsewhere on this website, the primary contributors to the effort of identifying contributors to the early <i>Quarterly Review</i> are John Murray III, Hill Shine and Helen Chadwick Shine, and the present writer. (For information on the relative contribution of each these researchers, the interested reader may consult the <a href="/reference/qr/founding/intro.html">Introduction</a> to this website.)</p>
<p>In the handlist, article serial numbers assigned in Hill Shine and Helen Chadwick Shine, <i>The Quarterly Review Under</i> <em>Gifford</em> (1949) appear to the left of the attributions. Attributions flagged with an asterisk differ from the attribution in Shine. As in the <a href="/reference/qr/index/index.html">Index pages</a>, the article's primary author is indicated first, in bold, followed by collaborators. The conjunction 'and' is used to indicate multiple primary authors, as in '<b>George Ellis</b> and <b>George Canning</b>'. The preposition 'with' is used to indicate sub-editors, minor collaborators, and persons who supplied materials. Less than certain attributions are indicated as 'probable' or 'possible', depending upon the strength of the evidence. The degree of certainty assigned to each attribution represents an assessment by the present writer of the objective evidence presented in the Index pages.</p>
<p>1. <b>*George Ellis</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<strong>2.</strong> <b>Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>3. John Hoppner</b><br/>
<b>4. William Gifford</b><br/>
5. <b>*Sharon Turner</b>, with John Shore, Lord Teignmouth<br/>
<b>6. James Pillans</b><br/>
<b>7. Isaac D'Israeli</b><br/>
<b>8. John Ireland,</b> possibly<br/>
9. <b>*William Erskine</b>, with Walter Scott<br/>
<b>10. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>11. Barr&#233; Charles Roberts</b><br/>
<b>12. William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>13. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>14. *John Kidd</b>, probably<br/>
<b>15. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>16. *Walter Scott</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>17. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>18. George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>19. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>20. George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>21. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>22. James Pillans</b><br/>
<b>23. William Greenfield</b><br/>
<b>24. *George D'Oyly</b>, with William Gifford and John Ireland<br/>
<b>25. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>26. John Kidd</b><br/>
<b>27. *William Gifford</b>, probably<br/>
<b>28. George Ellis<br/>
29. Isaac D'Israeli</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>30. *John Ireland</b> and <b>William Gifford</b>, possibly with George Canning<br/>
<b>31. Isaac D'Israeli</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
32. <b>*Robert Walpole</b>, with William Gifford and possibly with George Canning<br/>
<b>33. *John Kidd</b>, probably with Thomas Manners-Sutton<br/>
<b>34. *George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>35. *Sharon Turner, George Canning</b>, and <b>William Gifford</b>, possibly with Friedrich von Gentz<br/>
<b>36. George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>37. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>38. *Thomas Thomson</b>, with William Gifford and John Josias Conybeare<br/>
<b>39. George D'Oyly</b>, probably with John Ireland<br/>
<b>40. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>41. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, probably<br/>
<b>42. Henry John Stephen</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>43. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>44. Author not identified</b><br/>
<b>45. Frank Sayers</b><br/>
<b>46. George Ellis</b> and <b>George Canning</b><br/>
<b>47. Alexander Maconochie-Welwood, Lord Meadowbank</b><br/>
<b>48. John Barrow</b><br/>
<b>49. John Ireland</b><br/>
<b>50. John Hoppner</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>51. Reginald Heber</b><br/>
<b>52. *Robert Walpole</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>53. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>54. *George D'Oyly</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>55. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>56. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>57. Henry John Stephen</b><br/>
<b>58. *Allen or Allan of Oxford [poss. John Henry Allen]</b><br/>
<b>59. William Gifford</b><br/>
60. <b>*Robert Grant</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<b>61. *James Pillans</b><br/>
<b>62. *George Ellis</b>, with George Canning and William Gifford<br/>
<b>63. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>64. John Hoppner</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>65. Reginald Heber</b><br/>
<b>66. George Ellis</b> and <b>George Canning</b><br/>
<b>67. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>68. John Barrow</b><br/>
<b>69. *Frank Sayers</b><br/>
<b>70. George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>71. *Walter Scott</b>, probably; with Richard Heber<br/>
<b>72. George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>73. *Olinthus Gregory</b><br/>
74. <b>*Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, probably<br/>
<b>75. *George Ellis</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<b>76. Reginald Heber</b><br/>
<b>77. Isaac D'Israeli</b>, probably, and with a collaborator<br/>
<b>78. *Robert Grant</b>, with Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>79. Author not identified</b><br/>
80. <b>James Henry Monk</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>81. *John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b>, with William Gifford and John Ireland<br/>
<b>82. John Barrow</b><br/>
<b>83. *George D'Oyly</b>, probably<br/>
<b>84. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>85. John Barrow</b><br/>
<b>86. *George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>87. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>88. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>89. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>90. Walter Scott</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>91. Sharon Turner</b><br/>
<b>92. *John Symmons</b><br/>
<b>93. *George D'Oyly</b>, possibly; OR <b>Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>94. *John Hoppner</b> and <b>Samuel Rogers</b>, possibly, and with William Gifford; OR <b>Edmund Lodge</b>, possibly, and with William Gifford<br/>
<b>95. Thomas Fanshaw Middleto</b>n<br/>
<b>96. Charles Abraham Elton</b><br/>
<b>97. Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>98. Robert Southey</b><br/>
99. <b>*Thomas Young</b>, possibly sub-edited by Olinthus Gregory<br/>
<b>100. Walter Scott</b><br/>
<b>101. George Ellis<br/>
102. Robert Southey</b><br/>
103. <b>*Olinthus Gregory</b>, with Thomas Young<br/>
<b>104. John Barrow</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>105. William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>106. *John Ireland</b><br/>
<b>107. Reginald Heber<br/>
108. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>109. *Author not identified</b>, possibly with Francis Douce<br/>
<b>110. George Ellis<br/>
111. *John Bird Sumner<br/>
112. *Barron Field</b>, possibly with William Gifford and Francis Douce<br/>
<b>113. *John Davison, Henry Home Drummond</b>, and <b>Edward Copleston</b><br/>
114. <b>*Robert Grant</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<b>115. Robert Grant</b><br/>
<b>116. *John Barrow</b>, possibly with Robert Southey<br/>
<b>117. Robert Southey<br/>
118. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
119. John Barrow<br/>
120. Author not identified<br/>
121. *Thomas Falconer</b>, with Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>122. *Olinthus Gregory</b>, probably<br/>
123. <b>*Edmund Lodge</b>, with Walter Scott<br/>
124. <b>*George Ellis</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<b>125. Reginald Heber<br/>
126. *Frank Sayers<br/>
127. Robert Southey</b><br/>
128. <b>*John Mitford</b> and <b>William Gifford</b>, with Richard Heber<br/>
<b>129. *George Ellis, George Canning</b>, and <b>William Huskisson</b>, with John Murray<br/>
<b>130. *George D'Oyly</b>, possibly<br/>
131. <b>*Walter Scott</b>, with Grosvenor<br/>
<b>132. *John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>133. *Edward Copleston</b>, with John Ireland<br/>
<b>134. John William Ward, Lord Dudley<br/>
135. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
136. <b>*George Ellis</b>, with George Canning, Charles Ellis, and John Hookham Frere<br/>
<b>137. *Robert Grant</b>, with George Canning and William Gifford, possibly with John Wilson Croker,<br/>
and with information from Lord Teignmouth and the elder Charles Grant<br/>
<b>138. James Henry Monk<br/>
139. *John Barrow</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>140. *George Ellis</b>, probably with George Canning and John Barrow<br/>
141. <b>*Thomas Falconer</b>, with Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>142. *John Barrow</b>, with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>143. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>144. *Olinthus Gregory</b>, probably; with John Ireland and possibly with George D'Oyly<br/>
<b>145. *George D'Oyly</b><br/>
<b>146. *John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b>, probably, and <b>John Wilson Croker</b>; possibly with John Barrow<br/>
<b>147. *John Barrow</b> and <b>George Thomas Staunton</b><br/>
<b>148. Robert Southey</b> and <b>John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
<b>149. Reginald Heber</b><br/>
<b>150. *George Ellis</b><br/>
<b>151. *Reginald Heber</b>, probably<br/>
<b>152. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
153. <b>*Charles Grant</b>, probably, and possibly with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>154. Macvey Napier</b>, with William Gifford, Reginald Heber, and Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>155. *George Ellis</b>, with George Canning and William Gifford<br/>
<b>156. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>157. Thomas Young</b><br/>
<b>158. *Allen or Allen of Oxford [poss. John Henry Allen]</b>, possibly with Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>159. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>160. John Barrow<br/>
161. John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b><br/>
<b>162. *Eaton Stannard Barrett</b>, possibly, and possibly with George Ellis and George Canning<br/>
<b>163. John Davison</b><br/>
<b>164. George D'Oyly</b> and William Gifford<br/>
165. <b>*John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>166. *Octavius Gilchrist</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>167. John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
168. <b>*Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>169. *Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>170. John Barrow</b> and <b>John Hoppner</b><br/>
<b>171. John Ireland<br/>
172. Robert Southey<br/>
173. Edward Copleston<br/>
174. John Wilson Croker<br/>
175. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
176. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, probably<br/>
<b>177. *Octavius Gilchrist, William Gifford</b>, and <b>Barron Field,</b> with George Ellis<br/>
<b>178. *John Barrow</b>, with Charles Philip Yorke and Spenser Perceval<br/>
1<b>79. *George Ellis</b> and <b>George Canning</b><br/>
<b>180. *John Barrow</b>, with William Gifford, John Wilson Croker, Frederick John Robinson, and George Canning; suggested by John Murray<br/>
181. <b>George D'Oyly</b>, probably; possibly with Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
<b>182. Robert Southey<br/>
183. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
184. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
185. John Barrow<br/>
186. *Olinthus Gregory</b>, with Thomas Young and Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>187. *John Wilson Croker</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>188. John Davison<br/>
189. George Ellis<br/>
190. Henry Phillpotts<br/>
191. *Joseph Blanco White</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>192. John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b><br/>
<b>193. *Octavius Gilchrist</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>194. *George D'Oyly<br/>
195. John Ferriar</b>, probably<br/>
<b>196. John Wilson Croker<br/>
197. *John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b>, probably with Richard Heber and Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>198. John Wilson Croker<br/>
199. John Barrow<br/>
200. John Herman Merivale</b>, probably<br/>
<b>201. *Horace Twiss</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>202. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
203. John Wilson Croker<br/>
204. Robert Southey<br/>
205. Author not identified<br/>
206. Peter Elmsley<br/>
207. *Herbert Marsh<br/>
208. John Barrow<br/>
209. *William Gifford</b>, probably<br/>
<b>210. Thomas Young<br/>
211. Robert Southey<br/>
212. Robert Southey<br/>
213. *George Ellis</b>, possibly with George Canning<br/>
<b>214. John Wilson Croker<br/>
215. *Olinthus Gregory</b>, probably<br/>
<b>216. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
217. John Wilson Croker<br/>
218. *John Penrose</b>, with Walter Scott<br/>
<b>219. John Barrow<br/>
220. *Peter Elmsley</b>, probably<br/>
<b>221. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>222. *John Herman Merivale</b>, probably<br/>
<b>223. Reginald Heber</b><br/>
<b>224. *Robert Southey</b>, possibly with John Rickman<br/>
<b>225. Author not identified<br/>
226. John Barrow<br/>
227. *Walter Scott</b>, probably<br/>
<b>228. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>229. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>230. *William Stewart Rose</b>, probably<br/>
<b>231. *Robert William Hay</b>, with John Barrow, John Wilson Croker, and Sir George Murray<br/>
<b>232. George Ellis<br/>
233. *William Stewart Rose<br/>
234. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
235. William Stewart Rose<br/>
236. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
237. *John Barrow<br/>
238. John Herman Merivale<br/>
239. *Thomas Young</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>240. Robert John Wilmot-Horton<br/>
241. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
242. Reginald Heber<br/>
243. John William Ward, Lord Dudley<br/>
244. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>245. John Barrow<br/>
246. William Stewart Rose<br/>
247. John William Ward, Lord Dudley<br/>
248. *George D'Oyly</b>, probably<br/>
<b>249. John Wilson Croker<br/>
250. Charles James Blomfield<br/>
251. *Robert William Hay<br/>
252. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
253. *Olinthus Gregory<br/>
254. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
255. John Barrow<br/>
256. *James Herman Merivale</b>, probably<br/>
<b>257. Thomas Young<br/>
258. *John Barrow<br/>
259. George Ellis<br/>
260. *John Barrow</b>, possibly with Sylvester Douglas<br/>
<b>261. *Walter Scott</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>262. Edward Copleston</b><br/>
<b>263. John Herman Merivale<br/>
264. Robert Southey<br/>
265. *John Herman Merivale</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>266. *George Ellis<br/>
267. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>268. *John Bird Sumner</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>269. *Robert William Hay</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>270. Reginald Heber</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>271. Thomas Young<br/>
272. *John William Ward, Lord Dudley</b>, with Edward Copleston<br/>
<b>273. *John Barrow,</b> with William Gifford<br/>
<b>274. George Ellis<br/>
275. Reginald Heber<br/>
276. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
277. Thomas Young<br/>
278. *Stratford Canning<br/>
279. John Wilson Croker<br/>
280. *John Barrow<br/>
281. John Wilson Croker<br/>
282. John Barrow<br/>
283. *Robert Bland</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>284. John Wilson Croker<br/>
285. Thomas Young<br/>
286. Robert Southey<br/>
287. John Wilson Croker<br/>
288. *Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>289. *Rev. ---- Drury</b>, possibly, and possibly with John Herman Merivale<br/>
<b>290. *Robert William Hay<br/>
291. John Wilson Croker<br/>
292. Author not identified<br/>
293. *Richard Chenevix</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>294. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
295. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>296. Thomas Young<br/>
297. John Barrow<br/>
298. Francis Cohen<br/>
299. John Barrow<br/>
300. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
301. Thomas Young<br/>
302. John Barrow<br/>
303. Thomas Young<br/>
304. John Wilson Croker<br/>
305. William Gifford<br/>
306. John Herman Merivale</b>, probably<br/>
<b>307. John Herman Merivale</b>, possibly, and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>308. George Ellis<br/>
309. *Charles James Blomfield</b>, probably<br/>
<b>310. *Robert Southey</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>311. John Barrow<br/>
312. John Wilson Croker<br/>
313. *Robert Southey</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>314. Thomas Young<br/>
315. *Charles Lamb</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>316. Francis Hare-Naylor<br/>
317. *George Canning<br/>
318. *Francis Cohen</b>, probably<br/>
<b>319. *Robert Southey</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>320. John Barrow<br/>
321. John Wilson Croker<br/>
322. William Rowe Lyall<br/>
323. Robert Southey<br/>
324. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, probably<br/>
<b>325. John Wilson Croker<br/>
326. *John Barrow</b>, with William Huskisson<br/>
<b>327. Author not identified<br/>
328. John Barrow<br/>
329. *Robert William Hay<br/>
330. John Wilson Croker<br/>
331. Robert Southey<br/>
332. Robert Southey<br/>
333. John Barrow<br/>
334. John Wilson Croker<br/>
335. *Grosvenor Charles Bedford</b>, with Robert Southey and ---- Nichol<br/>
<b>336. Author not identified<br/>
337. John Barrow<br/>
338. *Henry Hallam</b>, probably<br/>
<b>339. *William Rowe Lyall</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>340. John Wilson Croker<br/>
341. *Charles James Blomfield</b>, probably<br/>
<b>342. John Wilson Croker<br/>
343. Robert Southey<br/>
344. *George Ellis</b>, probably<br/>
<b>345. John Barrow<br/>
346. Charles James Blomfield<br/>
347. John Barrow<br/>
348. *Francis Cohen</b>, probably with George Taylor<br/>
<b>349. *John Barrow</b>, probably, and possibly with another person<br/>
<b>350. Robert William Hay<br/>
351. John Barrow</b> and <b>John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
<b>352. *Robert Southey</b>, with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>353. John Barrow<br/>
354. George D'Oyly<br/>
355. John Wilson Croker<br/>
356. Thomas Young<br/>
357. John Wilson Croker<br/>
358. *John Barrow</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>359. John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
<b>360. John Barrow</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>361. Walter Scott<br/>
362. *William Rowe Lyall</b>, probably, and possibly with Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
<b>363. *Charles James Blomfield</b>, with Robert William Hay and probably with Lord Elgin<br/>
<b>364. Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b><br/>
<b>365. *John Wilson Croker</b>, with Robert William Hay and probably with Lord Elgin<br/>
<b>366. Walter Scott<br/>
367. Robert Southey<br/>
368. John Barrow<br/>
369. *Walter Scott<br/>
370. John Barrow<br/>
371. William Rowe Lyall<br/>
372. John Wilson Croker<br/>
373. John Barrow<br/>
374. John Wilson Croker<br/>
375. Robert William Hay<br/>
376. *Henry Phillpotts</b>, probably<br/>
<b>377. John Wilson Croker<br/>
378. Robert Southey<br/>
379. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
380. John Barrow<br/>
381. *Charles James Blomfield</b>, probably<br/>
<b>382. John Wilson Croker<br/>
383. John Barrow<br/>
384. John Wilson Croker<br/>
385. Robert Southey<br/>
386. Reginald Heber<br/>
387. Robert Southey<br/>
388. John Wilson Croker<br/>
389. John Barrow<br/>
390. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
391. David Uwins</b>, probably<br/>
<b>392. Octavius Gilchrist</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>393. John Wilson Croker<br/>
394. John Barrow<br/>
395. John Wilson Croker<br/>
396. John Davison</b>, with John Keble<br/>
<b>397. Robert William Hay<br/>
398. Robert Southey<br/>
399. John Barrow<br/>
400. John Wilson Croker<br/>
401. *John Weyland</b>, probably<br/>
<b>402. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>403. *William Gifford</b>, probably<br/>
<b>404. *Robert Lundie<br/>
405. William Sydney Walker<br/>
406. John Barrow<br/>
407. Walter Scott<br/>
408. John Wilson Croker<br/>
409. *Robert Southey</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>410. *John Barrow<br/>
411. *Charles James Blomfield</b>, probably<br/>
<b>412. John Wilson Croker<br/>
413. Robert Southey<br/>
414. Author not identified<br/>
415. *John Barrow<br/>
416. Author not identified<br/>
417. *Walter Scott and William Erskine</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>418. John Wilson Croker<br/>
419. Robert Southey<br/>
420. Robert Southey<br/>
421. *William Rowe Lyall</b>, probably<br/>
<b>422. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>423. *Charles Robert Maturin<br/>
424. *Robert William Hay</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>425. *John Taylor Coleridge</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>426. *Reginald Heber<br/>
427. John Wilson Croker<br/>
428. John Barrow<br/>
429. *Charles Robert Maturin</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>430. *John Wilson Croker</b> and <b>William Gifford</b>, with John Hookham Frere<br/>
<b>431. John Barrow<br/>
432. George D'Oyly<br/>
433. Author not identified<br/>
434. John Bird Sumner<br/>
435. *John Barrow<br/>
436. John Wilson Croker<br/>
437. *Thomas Dunham Whitaker</b>, possibly with George D'Oyly<br/>
<b>438. John Barrow<br/>
439. John Wilson Croker<br/>
440. *Richard Colley Wellesley</b> and <b>William Jacob</b>, OR <b>Richard Colley Wellesley</b> alone; OR <b>William Jacob</b> alone<br/>
<b>441. Robert Southey<br/>
442. *John Barrow<br/>
443. *Issac D'Israeli</b>, possibly, and possibly with John Ireland<br/>
<b>444. Reginald Heber<br/>
445. *William Rowe Lyall</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>446. John Barrow<br/>
447. *David Uwins</b>, possibly; OR ------ <b>Lamb</b>, possibly; OR <b>Robert Gooch</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>448. *John Barrow</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>449. John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
<b>450. Author not identified</b><br/>
<b>451. John Barrow<br/>
452. John Wilson Croker<br/>
453. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
454. *John Rickman</b>, with Robert Southey<br/>
<b>455. *John Barrow, probably<br/>
456. *John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
457. *John Barrow</b>, with Henry Salt and William Hamilton<br/>
<b>458. John Wilson Croker</b><br/>
<b>459. John Malcolm<br/>
460. *Walter Scott</b>, with assistance from an unidentified person<br/>
<b>461. John Barrow<br/>
462. *William Gifford</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>463. William Jerdan<br/>
464. Francis Cohen<br/>
465. Alexander Boswell</b>, probably<br/>
<b>466. Walter Scott<br/>
467. Robert Southey<br/>
468. John Barrow</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>469. *John Rickman</b>, with <b>Robert Southey</b><br/>
<b>470. Walter Scott<br/>
471. Reginald Heber<br/>
472. *John Barrow</b>, with Henry Salt<br/>
<b>473. John Wilson Croker<br/>
474. John Barrow<br/>
475. Walter Scott<br/>
476. *Charles James Blomfield<br/>
477. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
478. George D'Oyly<br/>
479. *John Barrow</b>, possibly, and possibly with Robert Southey<br/>
<b>480. John Wilson Croker<br/>
481. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
482. *John Barrow<br/>
483. David Uwins<br/>
484. Author not identified<br/>
485. Author not identified<br/>
486. John Barrow</b> and <b>Thomas Young</b>, with Henry Salt<br/>
<b>487. *Eaton Stanard Barrett<br/>
488. George D'Oyly</b>, probably<br/>
<b>489. *William Goodhugh<br/>
490. John Wilson Croker<br/>
491. *William Carr Beresford</b>, with material supplied by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington<br/>
<b>492. *John Wilson Croker</b> and <b>James Henry Monk</b>, with William Gifford, George Canning,<br/>
Charles Manners-Sutton, and others<br/>
<b>493. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>494. *Edward Copleston</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>495. Thomas Dunham Whitaker<br/>
496. John Barrow<br/>
497. Francis Cohen<br/>
498. *John Impey</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>499. John Barrow<br/>
500. *Edward Smedley</b>, possibly, and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
<b>501. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>502. *Robert Southey</b>, with Sharon Turner and John Murray<br/>
<b>503. John Barrow<br/>
504. *Thomas Mitchell</b>, possibly with William Richard Hamilton and John Hookham Frere<br/>
<b>505. John Barrow<br/>
506. Richard Whately<br/>
507. Robert Southey<br/>
508. *John Miller</b>, with George Canning and John Backhouse, and with materials from Sir Charles Stuart and Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth<br/>
<b>509. *John Barrow</b>, probably with William Gifford<br/>
<b>510. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
511. John Wilson Croker<br/>
512. *Ugo Foscolo</b>, probably translated by Francis Cohen<br/>
<b>513. George D'Oyly<br/>
514. John Barrow<br/>
515. Robert Southey<br/>
516. William Jacob<br/>
517. John Barrow<br/>
518. *Olinthus Gregory</b>, possibly; OR John Brinkley, possibly<br/>
<b>519. *Stratford Canning</b>, probably, and probably with Robert William Hay<br/>
<b>520. William Gifford</b>, possibly; OR, <b>Edward Jacob</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>521. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
522. John Barrow<br/>
523. *John Wilson Croker</b>, probably<br/>
<b>524. John Barrow<br/>
525. Charles James Blomfield<br/>
526. Francis Cohen<br/>
527. Robert William Hay<br/>
528. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
529. John Barrow<br/>
530. *Robert Grant</b>, probably<br/>
<b>531. John Barrow<br/>
532. John Wilson Croker<br/>
533. Robert Grant<br/>
534. Robert Southey<br/>
535. Barron Field<br/>
536. John Barrow<br/>
537. Edward Berens<br/>
538. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>539. *Robert Walpole</b>, possibly with Charles James Blomfield<br/>
<b>540. John Wilson Croker<br/>
541. *Octavius Graham Gilchrist</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>542. *Richard Chenevix</b>, probably<br/>
<b>543. Reginald Heber<br/>
544. John Barrow<br/>
545. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
546. George D'Oyly<br/>
547. John Barrow<br/>
548. John Wilson Croker<br/>
549. Richard Whately<br/>
550. Isaac D'Israeli<br/>
551. Robert William Hay<br/>
552. *Henry Matthews</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>553. *Edward Daniel Clarke</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>554. John Hookham Frere<br/>
555. John Wilson Croker<br/>
556. *John Wilson Croker</b>, with T. Casey and William Gifford<br/>
<b>557. Robert Southey<br/>
558. Reginald Heber<br/>
559. Barron Field<br/>
560. Henry Hart Milman<br/>
561. *John Barrow</b>, probably<br/>
<b>562. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
563. *John Barrow</b>, with Henry Salt<br/>
<b>564. *David Uwins</b>, probably<br/>
<b>565. John Miller<br/>
566. *M. Fletcher</b>, probably<br/>
<b>567. John Wilson Croker<br/>
568. John Barrow<br/>
569. *John MacCulloch</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>570. Richard Whately<br/>
571. *James Henry Monk</b>, possibly with Charles James Blomfield; OR <b>Charles James Blomfield</b>, possibly with James Henry Monk<br/>
<b>572. *John Claudius Loudon</b>, possibly, and with William Gifford<br/>
<b>573. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
574. Robert Southey<br/>
575. Henry Matthews<br/>
576. Ugo Foscolo</b><br/>
<b>577. Henry Hart Milman<br/>
578. John Barrow<br/>
579. Henry Matthews<br/>
580. *George Procter</b>, with Sir George Murray<br/>
<b>581. *William Sydney Walker</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>582. Francis Cohen<br/>
583. John Wilson Croker<br/>
584. *William Haygarth</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>585. John Barrow<br/>
586. *David Uwins</b>, possibly<b><br/>
587. James Glassford<br/>
588. Robert Southey<br/>
589. Hugh James Rose<br/>
590. John Barrow<br/>
591. John Wilson Croker<br/>
592. John Barrow<br/>
593. *Reginald Heber</b>, and &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>594. *William Gilly</b>, probably<br/>
<b>595. John Barrow<br/>
596. Nassau William Senior<br/>
597. John Symmons<br/>
598. John Wilson Croker<br/>
599. Richard Chenevix<br/>
600. John Barrow<br/>
601. Henry Downing Whittington<br/>
602. John Barrow<br/>
603. Charles James Blomfield<br/>
604. John Matthews<br/>
605. Nassau William Senior<br/>
606. George Taylor<br/>
607. William Sydney Walker<br/>
608. Francis Cohen<br/>
609. John Barrow<br/>
610. John Wilson Croker<br/>
611. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
612. Robert Southey<br/>
613. *Thomas Turton</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>614. John Barrow<br/>
615. John Wilson Croker<br/>
616. William John Bankes<br/>
617. Author not identified<br/>
618. John Wilson Croker<br/>
619. *John Barrow<br/>
620. *M. Fletcher</b>, probably<br/>
<b>621. John Wilson Croker<br/>
622. *John Barrow</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>623. Nassau William Senior<br/>
624. *William Rowe Lyall</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>625. John Barrow<br/>
626. *M. Fletcher</b>, probably<br/>
<b>627. Robert Southey<br/>
628. Ugo Foscolo<br/>
629. *John Barrow<br/>
630. *John Barrow<br/>
631. *Robert Gooch</b>, probably<br/>
<b>632. Nassau William Senior<br/>
633. *John Barrow<br/>
634. *Richard Chenevix</b>, probably<br/>
<b>635. John Wilson Croker<br/>
636. *John Barrow<br/>
637. Edward Copleston<br/>
638. William Haygarth<br/>
639. Francis Cohen<br/>
640. Nassau William Senior<br/>
641. John Barrow<br/>
642. Author not identified<br/>
643. Thomas Mitchell<br/>
644. George Procter<br/>
645. Author not identified<br/>
646. *John Barrow<br/>
647. Reginald Heber<br/>
648. Robert Gooch<br/>
649. Robert Southey<br/>
650. John Wilson Croker<br/>
651. John Barrow<br/>
652. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
653. *John Barrow</b>, probably with Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles<br/>
<b>654. Henry Taylor<br/>
655. Author not identified<br/>
656. John Barrow<br/>
657. *John Barrow</b>, possibly with George Canning<br/>
<b>658. Author not identified<br/>
659. John Barrow<br/>
660. David Robinson</b> and <b>William Gifford</b><br/>
661. <b>*John Wilson Croker</b>, with Sir Hudson Lowe, Sir Thomas Reid, George Gorrequer, Robert Wilmot Horton, and Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington<br/>
<b>662. Richard Chenevix</b><br/>
<b>663. John James Blunt<br/>
664. John Barrow<br/>
665. *George Gleig</b>, with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>666. *George Procter</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>667. John Barrow<br/>
668. John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
669. *M. Fletcher</b>, probably, and with John Barrow<br/>
<b>670. John Wilson Croker<br/>
671. John Wilson Croker<br/>
672. William Haygarth<br/>
673. Robert Southey<br/>
674. *Robert William Hay</b>, with William Jacob<br/>
<b>675. *John Barrow</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>676. Richard Chenevix<br/>
677. *George Procter</b>, with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>678. *John Barrow</b>, with George Canning<br/>
<b>679. *Henry Downing Whittington</b>, probably<br/>
<b>680. *Edward Copleston</b>, with William Buckland<br/>
<b>681. Robert Southey<br/>
682. Thomas Robert Malthus<br/>
683. Joseph Blanco White<br/>
684. Henry Hart Milman<br/>
685. *Thomas Mitchell</b>, probably<br/>
<b>686. *John Barrow<br/>
687. *Henry Taylor</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>688. John Barrow<br/>
689. Richard Chenevix<br/>
690. *Francis Cohen</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>691. *Joseph Lowe</b>, probably, and possibly with John Barrow<br/>
<b>692. John Barrow<br/>
693. Edward Edwards<br/>
694. John Wilson Croker<br/>
695. Robert Southey<br/>
696. *John James Blunt</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>697. *George Procter</b>, probably<br/>
<b>698. Hugh James Rose<br/>
699. John Barrow<br/>
700. *Robley Dunglisson</b>, possibly, and possibly with John Barrow<br/>
<b>701. William Jacob<br/>
702. *John Philips Potter</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>703. *George Procter</b>, probably<br/>
<b>704. John Barrow<br/>
705. John Barrow<br/>
706. *John Wilson Croker</b>, probably with ------ Wright<br/>
<b>707. Thomas Robert Malthus<br/>
708. George Procter<br/>
709. John Barrow<br/>
710. John Barrow<br/>
711. John James Blunt<br/>
712. *John Taylor Coleridge<br/>
713. William Jacob</b>, possibly, and possibly with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>714. Hugh James Rose<br/>
715. *John Barrow</b>, with information from an unnamed correspondent, possibly Henry Salt<br/>
<b>716. *Henry Taylor</b>, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>717. *John Wilson Croke</b>r, with William Gifford<br/>
<b>718. *Walter Scott</b>, with John Wilson Croker<br/>
<b>719. *Robert John Wilmot Horton</b>, with Charles Rose Ellis, Robert William Hay, and others<br/>
<b>720. *William Jaco</b>b, possibly<br/>
<b>721. *John Philips Potte</b>r, possibly<br/>
<b>722. John Barrow<br/>
723. George Procter<br/>
724. George Procter<br/>
725. *Thomas Turton</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>726. George Taylor<br/>
727. John Barrow<br/>
728. George Procter<br/>
729. *John James Blunt</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>730. Thomas Hughes</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>731. George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Baron Dover</b>, possibly<br/>
<b>732. John Barrow<br/>
733. Henry Hart Milman</b></p>
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<h3>Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book-Object</h3>
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<h4>Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa</h4>
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<p class="RCabstract">Early 19th-century phenomena such as biliomania and the figure of the bookman helped to spark a widespread awareness of books as printed objects and an interest in the physical dimensions of the readerly relationship to them. Ferris looks at the ways in which the highlighting of the physical book-object in the bibliophilic genres of the period worked both to counter the impersonal and abstract forces generally associated with the printing press and to unsettle the divisions organizing the intellectual and cultural field of the period. This essay appears in _Romantic Libraries_, a volume of _Romantic Circles Praxis Series_, prepared exclusively for Romantic Circles (http://www.rc.umd.edu/), University of Maryland.</p>
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<p>"How is it possible to express what we owe, as intellectual beings, to the art of printing!" exclaimed the English literary antiquarian Sir Egerton Brydges in an essay "On Books" in his <i>Censura Literaria</i>. "When a man sits in a well-furnished library, surrounded by the collected wisdom of thousands of the best endowed minds, of various ages and countries, what an amazing extent of mental range does he command!"(8: 187). With its foregrounding of the canonical, the cosmopolitan, and the mental, Brydges' representation of the library exemplifies a long-standing European tradition of looking through actual books to an immaterial "wisdom" they make available to readers, usually understood (as here) primarily as "intellectual beings." But this familiar impulse to abstraction went hand-in-hand in the early decades of the nineteenth century with a sharpened interest in books as printed objects and in the physical relationship to them on the part of what were known as "bookmen": readers, collectors, authors. Concentrating as much on the look and "feel" of books as on intellectual or imaginative transport, an emergent discourse of the book in the period allied book-pleasure with sensation as much as intellection and imagination. "We are not mere creatures of <i>reason</i>," wrote Egerton Brydges himself to his fellow bibliophile Thomas Frognall Dibdin, "we are intended also to be creatures of <i>sensation</i>"(Dibdin, <i>Reminiscences</i> 305). The book-love that prompted the enormous spurt of bibiliophilic writing in their time&#8212;anecdotes, catalogues, companions, autobiographies, memoirs, even travels&#8212;was centrally concerned with sensation or feeling, that is, with a category straddling the border of the physical and psychological, and attached (as mental constructs ideally were not) to the boundaries of specific bodies. Even as bibliophilic genres continued to assume and value the power of "the art of printing" to produce the flat and open mental spaces through which knowledge could be readily transmitted and reproduced across cultures and periods, they insisted on worldly locations and pleasures that resisted ideals of transfer and reproduction. Thickening time instead of rendering it transparent, the printed books evoked in the anecdotal forms favoured by bibliophiles testified to the singularity of literate beings, inscribing them in particular and contingent histories rather than in the impersonal forces of circulation and system more typically linked to the printing press.</p>
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<p>The period awareness of the book as physical object owed much to the curious phenomenon of bibiliomania, the sudden fashion for collecting early printed books and manuscripts that erupted in aristocratic and wealthy circles in the first two decades of the century and led to the formation in 1812 of the exclusive Roxburghe Club, forerunner of the learned reprint societies that were to flourish later in the century. As Philip Connell has argued, bibliomania at once spectacularly commodified old books and granted them an aura, playing into the nostalgic model of national literary heritage taking hold during a time when, with the advent of the steam press and stereotype printing, the printing trade itself was shifting decisively out of artisanal models of production (Connell 25). Most contemporaries, however, encountered bibiliomania in the first instance as a favoured target of critical amusement and derision in the periodicals. The critical reviews took great delight in poking fun both at titled collectors locked in furious bidding wars over ancient volumes and at book-lovers waxing rhapsodic over what the period termed the "outside" of books. Here were Book-Fools of the first order, prompting earnest bibiliophiles like Brydges to distance themselves as rapidly as possible from "[t]he black-letter mania." "[E]xtensive knowledge of title-pages, editions, and dates," he announced in an essay on "Bibliothecae," "excited not only my wonder, but, may I add, my disgust!" (<i>Censura</i> 9:37). Bibliomania was typically cast as a distortion of properly literary and readerly values, a perverse lust after physical properties; but at the same time the publicity surrounding it meant that the specialized idiom of book-collection (the language of bindings, paper, margins, tall copies, and so forth) moved into a wider discourse. Books as made objects achieved a certain prominence in the public mind, and attachment to book-objects inflected even discussions intent on establishing their intrinsic rather than extrinsic value.</p>
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<p>Thus Isaac D'Israeli, one of the period's most notable lovers and readers of books, dismisses the passion for embellishing "their outsides" as a "fancy" in his essay on "Libraries," but he also goes on to claim that in the hands of "the real man of letters, the most fanciful bindings are often the emblems of his taste and feelings"(<i>Curiosities</i> 2). Similarly, Leigh Hunt ridicules with zest the notorious rhetorical excess of Thomas Frognall Dibdin's book-ardour: "We are not in the habit, with Frognall, of leaping up to kiss and embrace every 'enticing' edition in vellum, and every 'sweetly-toned . . . yellow morocco binding'." But all the same he himself admits to "a penchant for good and suitable, and even rich and splendid bindings," as he goes on to indulge a Dibdinesque fantasy of the sun striking a whole room full of richly-bound volumes "with all the colours of a flower-garden or a cathedral window" ("Pocket-Books" 224). Even the less luxuriantly-minded William Hazlitt, who equally disclaims interest in the fashion for black-letter, confesses in "On Reading Old Books" to a knowledge of eighteenth-century marble bindings and to a pleasure in Russia leather or in an "ample impression" of a favourite text (<i>Works</i> 12:220). By underlining the book's status as an object in one's hand or eye, such remarks highlight the often overlooked somatic moment of the book, the physical encounter that initiates reading and conditions it as a process (if often subliminally) throughout. Period essays repeatedly linger over the feel of paper and binding, the weight of a book, its special smell, and so on, underlining Alberto Manguel's recent point that "[t]he act of reading establishes an intimate, physical relationship in which all the senses have a part: the eyes drawing the words from the page, the ears echoing the sounds being read, the nose inhaling the familiar scent of paper, glue, ink, cardboard or leather, the touch caressing the rough or soft page, the smooth or hard bindings" (Manguel 244).</p>
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<p>This sensuous intimacy of the space of reading&#8212;its bodily, quasi-erotic dimension&#8212;made reading, especially female reading, the subject of a great deal of much-discussed anxiety in the period. But what interests Manguel is how it helps account for the attachment of readers to particular copies of books (in contrast, say, to particular fictions). And in this context he quotes Charles Lamb's remarks in "Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading" on the pleasure of reading a book of one's own, a book that "has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins"(cited in Manguel 244). Physical marks and bodily memories like these register a distinct and personal history, one that is not transferrable or exchangeable as are ideas, arguments, or stories. The conjuncture of book and reader constitutes what Roger Cardinal, speaking of collectors, terms an "unrepeatable conjuncture"(Cardinal 68). Not only is it a unique coming together of subject, object, place, and moment but the sensations and associations of the encounter elude general circulation. Unlike the sentiments valorized in moral philosophy, that is, they can be indicated but not (in the Humean sense) "communicated" (e.g. Hume 576). Suggestively, in the same essay cited by Manguel, Lamb draws special attention to "Poor Tobin," a recently blinded reader who, he notes, "did not regret it so much for the weightier kinds of reading&#8212;the Paradise Lost, or Comus, he could have <i>read</i> to him&#8212;but he missed the pleasure of skimming over with his own eye a magazine, or a light pamphlet" (Lamb, <i>Works</i> 149).</p>
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<p>In an important way, then, the period understood the bounded body rather than the borderless mind as what brought home to the individual subject an impersonal print culture of reproduction and exchange (made it "homely" in Deidre Lynch's terms), rendering personal and intimate its cognitive and imaginative constructs. In an almost parodic moment, Hunt epitomizes this movement of appropriation when, after declaring his desire to be in contact with his favourite volumes in "My Books," he goes on to explain: "When I speak of being in contact with my books, I mean it literally. I like to lean my head against them" (<i>Essays and Sketches</i> 78). What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects. For Lamb in "Detached Thoughts," for example, books are always animated and inhabited: on the one hand the "shivering folios" he fancifully invokes; on the other, the "sullied leaves" of circulating library volumes with their traces of past readings: "How they speak of the thousand thumbs, that have turned over their pages with delight!&#8212;of the lone sempstress, whom they may have cheered (milliner, or harder-working mantua-maker) after her long day's needle-toil" (<i>Works</i> 146, 149).</p>
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<p>Lamb's essay first appeared in the <i>London Magazine</i>, which featured several suggestive meditations on bibliophilia and reading in the 1820s, including Hazlitt's important essay "On Reading Old Books" (February 1821). For Hazlitt old volumes prompted a particular awareness of and meditation on the formative intersection of subjects and objects. His essay, a bookish rewriting of Wordsworth's "Intimations Ode," presents the volumes of Hazlitt's youth as fully entwined in his own consciousness, key triggers of the memories and associations that constitute its materials. Books familiar to us, he argues, act as "links in the chain of our conscious being. They bind together the different scattered visions of our personal identity" (<i>Works</i> 12: 222). Crucially, the essay makes central to this process of binding identity not so much the act of reading (as we might expect) as the book-object itself. If some of Hazlitt's writing such as the well-known "On the Conversation of Authors" (first published in <i>London Magazine</i>, September 1820) dematerializes books as the "essence of wisdom and humanity" and "the language of thought," "On Reading Old Books" focuses its interest on the psychological and affective powers linked to their contingent, material existence. So, Hazlitt tells us, a "little musty duodecimo" has the power to transport him to the concrete occasion of its first reading: "the place where I sat to read the volume, the day when I got it, the feeling of the air, the fields, the sky&#8212;return, and all my early impressions with them" (<i>Works</i> 12: 222). Retaining this focus on the physical book throughout, he celebrates Cooke's edition of the British Novelists, recalls the "coarse leathern cover" of the edition of Rousseau picked up in a bookstall, and notes how by simply looking at the covers of the copies of Milton and Burke purchased in 1798, he can conjure up the pleasure with which he "dipped into them" over twenty years ago.</p>
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<p>But these revivals and recoveries take place in the context of current loss: "Books have in a great measure lost their power over me," Hazlitt reports, echoing Wordsworth's famous ode, "nor can I revive the same interest in them as formerly. I perceive when a thing is good, rather than feel it" (<i>Works</i> 12: 225). Mourning a loss of feeling, he understands it a disconnection not from the phenomenological world of nature nor from the visionary gleam of imagination but from a bodily being-in-books characterized by intensity and sensation. And it is to one of the most sensuous poems of the period that he turns to exemplify this lost connection. Noting the rich imagery of Keats's recently published "Eve of St. Agnes" ("the gorgeous twilight window which he has painted over again in his verse"), Hazlitt remarks: "I know how I should have felt at one time in reading such passages; and that is all. The sharp luscious flavour, the fine aroma is fled" (<i>Works</i> 12: 225). Ardour and sensation dissipated, what now remain are only "words." "They have scarce a meaning," he states. "But it was not always so. There was a time when to my thinking, every word was a flower or a pearl . . ."&#8212;and he goes on to elaborate the Wordsworthian note of lament (<i>Works</i> 12: 225).</p>
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<p>Books in Hazlitt's essay thus activate the nostalgic logic of the personal souvenir Susan Stewart has outlined, functioning as objects that shape the narrative of an individual life and give it access to an authenticity and intensity impossible in a diminished present (Stewart 132-51). But at the same time books are also peculiarly interiorized objects that stray outside the metonymic logic of the souvenir and confound, as much confirm, the priority of the subject established by the souvenir. The foregrounding of the book-object in bibliophilic writing in fact tends to activate reversals and inversions suggesting that <i>objects</i> may constitute <i>subjects</i> rather than the other way around. Hazlitt is not being entirely facetious when, at one point in "On Reading Old Books," he attributes his failure to be as moved by Rousseau's <i>Nouvelle Eloise</i> as he was in the past to "the smallness and gilt edges of the edition I had bought, and its being perfumed with rose-leaves" (<i>Works</i> 12: 224). This bibliophilic insistence on the object equally accentuates Leigh Hunt's use of the traditional identification of writers and their work in "My Books" when he reflects with pleasure on how "all these lovers of books have themselves become books!" (<i>Essays &amp; Sketches</i> 94). As authors metamorphose into books in Hunt's account, it is not only that subjects become literal objects but that the objects become the valorized <i>point</i> of the whole process. So, Hunt says, he loves the authors on his shelves "not only for the imaginative pleasures they afforded me, but for their making me love the very books themselves" (<i>Essays &amp; Sketches</i> 77). Not too surprisingly, he wishes himself to become a book. Over a century later, Holbrook Jackson's <i>Anatomy of Bibliomania</i> (1930) gives memorable expression to this persistent bibliophilic fantasy, concluding its anatomy with a trope of "twice-born" bookmen: "They become natives of a world of books, creatures of the printed word, and in the end cease to be men, as, by a gradual metastasis, they are resolved into bookmen: twice-born, first of woman (as every man) and then of books, and, by reason of this, unique and distinct from the rest" (Jackson 1:419). Underlining the turn from nature and toward alienated forms of identity that appears in much bibliophilic writing both then and now, Jackson's bizarre bookmen seek to escape the human, biological world of reproduction (and, not so incidentally, of women) and to be born again into that of the printed word.</p>
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<p>Philip Connell draws attention to this extraordinary investment in print when he comments in relation to one of the quintessential bookmen of the early nineteenth century: "The Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin trained and practiced as an Anglican clergyman. His true religion, however, was the <i>printed</i> word" (Connell 30). As Connell's italicization suggests, it was print itself that fascinated Dibdin, and it is entirely appropriate that it should have been Dibdin's <i>The Bibliomania</i> (1809) that made the term "bibliomania" current in Britain <a href="/praxis/libraries/ferris/ferris_figure1.html">(Figure 1)</a>. Dibdin not only indefatigably pursued early printed books on behalf of his collector-patron, Earl Spencer, but himself produced elaborate and handsome bibliographic volumes in a variety of unusual genres (e.g. mock-treatise, classical dialogues, travel writing), along with more standard library catalogues and bibliographies. Moreover, these volumes themselves were notorious for being overrun with footnotes: print on print. Even the slim 82-page first edition of <i>The Bibliomania</i> (the second edition swelled to gigantic proportions) had footnotes that run on for pages at a time, bumping out a text often reduced to a trickle on the top of the page. Using the best paper, printers, engravers, and binders, Dibdin's books were costly to produce and they typically lost money, whereupon Dibdin would announce yet another money-losing book project and once again launch himself, caught up in an endless loop of publication. It comes as no surprise to be told in his autobiography that early in life "my fancy took to run strangely upon BOOKS" (<i>Reminiscences</i> 192).</p>
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<p>The material book is Dibdin's ground, giving his world historical, affective and ethical shape. His <i>A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany</i> (1821), for example, makes central the generosity of librarians and booksellers, detailing their book-gifts, special permissions and other "kind offices"; it presents the history of the towns through which Dibdin passes as largely the history of their printing and book trade; and the pleasures of the journey it recounts stem primarily either from encounters with rare books or convivial gatherings with other bibiliophiles. Finding himself amidst rich collections, Dibdin is literally enchanted, as when he enters one of the rooms in the Royal Library in Paris: "the first view of the contents of this second room is absolutely magical. Such copies, of such rare, precious, magnificent, and long-sought after impressions! . . . [sic] It is fairy-land throughout" (<i>Tour</i> 2.44). Most suggestively, Dibdin's reading of the French Revolution hinges on the question of its way with books, pointing to what we might call a bibliophilic politics that cuts across stock political lines to produce a certain ambivalence. As a conservative Anglican clergyman Dibdin predictably deplores the ideology of the revolution and draws attention to its destruction of books. But he is also well aware that even as the revolution scattered and destroyed books, it also gathered and collected them into the public libraries he values, and his narrative commends librarians (often priestly librarians) who either collaborated with or actively pursued the revolutionary work of dissolving monastic and aristocratic libraries and transferring their contents to civic institutions. What counts, always, is the attitude to books&#8212;the books of Europe&#8212;a form of attention that tends to override questions of nation, class and politics. This is not to say Dibdin is immune to such questions but to suggest that his bibliophilia opens onto identifications that bypass or cut across some dominant strains of social and national identity being erected in post-revolutionary Europe.</p>
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<p>The example of Dibdin points to the way in which the figure of the bookman worked to unsettle, as much as to maintain, lines of division organizing the intellectual and cultural field in the period. A curious mixture of scholar and dandy, the early nineteenth-century bookman stood in especially troubled relation to notions of literacy and knowledge consolidating categories of intellectual identity. Linked to modern scholarship by virtue of his technical knowledge and to the still active humanist model of the republic of letters by virtue of his trans-national literary allegiance, he was nonetheless exiled from both by virtue of his very bookishness: that insistent attachment to the book as matter (as well as spirit), which appeared to contemporaries a perverse confusion of the accepted hierarchies that defined intellectual culture. As the <i>Antijacobin Review</i> put it in opening its discussion of Dibdin's <i>Bibliomania</i>: "Happily, in this country, hitherto, a knowledge of things has been deemed preferable to a knowledge of books; the study of the works of nature has justly preceded that of the works of man" ("Dibdin's <i>Bibliomania</i>" 414). Bibliographic figures such as Dibdin&#8212;a producer of books on books&#8212;were thus routinely demoted in the literary-scholarly field; all the more so when, as in the case of Dibdin, their knowledge was associated with the vagaries of commercial speculation.</p>
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<p>In the age of bibliomania the status of bibliography as a scholarly genre, always tenuous given its connection to the lowly activities of the printing trade, was further compromised, and it was regularly represented in the periodical press under tropes of inflation and presumption. In the article just cited, for instance, the <i>Anti-Jacobin</i> dismisses "the science (as it is called by its devotees) of bibliography," declaring that its place is "not among the first, or even second, order of intellectual pursuits" ("Dibdin's <i>Bibliomania</i>" 414). On a similar note, the <i>Monthly Review</i> deplores the "extravagant value" placed on "the petty and insignificant knowledge of title-pages" and places the bibliographer "among the inferior retainers of literature." Significantly, among bibliography's sins for the <i>Monthly</i> is not just a fascination with dates and places of publication nor the "absurd value" placed on bindings and fine condition but the fact that "anecdotes of printers and publishers and purchasers supersede any illustrations of the beauties of the historians, orators, philosophers, and poets of antiquity" ("Beloe's <i>Anecdotes</i>" 1). Replacing the formal abstraction of "beauties" with the disconnected singularity of "anecdotes" and transferring attention from mental to mechanical production, bibiliographic genres understood books as decidedly non-authorial objects, so threatening to derail central literary-intellectual investments. The <i>Monthly</i> reviewer goes on, in fact, to complain that, even among "the learned," discussion of printers, publishers, and purchasers has displaced the discourse of the liberal and creative professions.</p>
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<p>The "absurd" figure of the bookman thus turns out to be a strangely contaminating one, its peculiar romance with the "outside" of culture and knowledge destabilizing those inside their parameters. At a moment when the desire to read past and to read out books&#8212;to transform them into interiorized texts&#8212;was gaining significant momentum in the intellectual field, early nineteenth-century bibliophilic genres put into circulation modes of writing that moved into sharp focus a concrete encounter with books, rewriting them as affective and non-transferable objects. "The printed word always tends to abstraction," asserts Susan Stewart, deploying a familiar model of print culture when she claims that books as printed objects live a life outside the time of body and voice (Stewart 22). But the minor genres of book-love in the early nineteenth century&#8212;genres of collection, recollection, and revival&#8212;return to the book a certain weight of physical being (even as books themselves were becoming literally ever smaller) and reattach it to the particularities of body and personal identity. Refusing to books the transparency that would make them simply vehicles for a valorized and immaterial text, bibliophilic writing intersects with higher profile genres of Romantic writing in taking aim at the powers of dispersal and abstraction enabled by the forms of mechanical reproduction linked to modern print culture. But it does so by making central the very symbol of those forms, and hence prompts a certain re-thinking of the ways in which we have typically understood the making of intellectual culture in the period.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">"Beloe's <i>Anecdotes of Literature, Vols. III. and IV</i>.," <i>Monthly Review</i> 63 (Sep 1810): 1-11.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Brydges, Sir Egerton. <i>Censura Literaria</i>. 2nd ed. 10 vols. London, 1815.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Cardinal, Roger. "Collecting and Collage-making: The Case of Kurt Schwitters." <i>The Cultures of Collecting</i>. Ed. John Elsner and Roger Cardinal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1994. 68-96.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Connell, Philip. "Bibliomania: Book-Collecting, Cultural Politics, and the Rise of Literary Heritage in Romantic Britain," <i>Representations</i> 71 (Summer 2000): 24-47.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. <i>The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease</i>. <i>In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber, Esq</i>. London, 1809.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">---. <i>A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany</i>. 2nd ed. London, 1829.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">---. <i>Reminiscences of a Literary Life; With Anecdotes of Books, and of Book Collectors</i>. London, 1836.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">"Dibdin's Bibliomania." <i>The Antijacobin Review</i> 40 (Dec 1811): 414-19.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">D'Israeli, Isaac. <i>Curiosities of Literature</i>. 12th ed. London: Moxon, 1841.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Hazlitt, William. <i>Complete Works of William Hazlitt</i>. 21 vols. Ed. P. P. Howe. London: Dent, 1933.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Hume, David. <i>A Treatise of Human Nature</i>. Ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Hunt, Leigh. <i>Essays and Sketches by Leigh Hunt</i>. Ed. R. Brimley Johnson. London: Oxford, 1906.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">---. "Pocket-Books and Keepsakes." <i>Essays (Selected) by Leigh Hunt</i>. London: Dent, 1929. 217-27.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Jackson, Holbrook. <i>The Anatomy of Bibliomania</i>. <i>In Two Volumes</i>. London: The Soncino Press, 1930.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Lamb, Charles. <i>The Complete Works and Letters of Charles Lamb</i>. New York: Modern Library, 1935.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Manguel, Alberto. <i>A History of Reading.</i> New York: Viking, 1996.</p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="hang">Stewart, Susan. <i>On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection</i>. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. 132-51.</p>
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view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">NINES Discipline(s):&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/nines-discipline/literature" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Literature</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-nines-type-s- field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">NINES Type(s):&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/nines-type/typescript" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Typescript</a></li></ul></section>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:16:53 +0000rc-admin22615 at http://www.rc.umd.eduAndrew Bennett, Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterityhttp://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews-blog/andrew-bennett-romantic-poets-and-culture-posterity
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div id="caption" class="alignleft" width="239">Andrew Bennett, <em>Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity</em>. Cambridge Studies in<br />
Romanticism Series, no. 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 268pp. $59.95 (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-521-64144-6).</div>
<h3>Reviewed by<br />
James Najarian<br />
Boston College</h3>
<p> Andrew Bennett, the author of <a href="http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521445655"><em>Keats, Narrative and Audience</em></a> (Cambridge, 1994), returns to the topic of the poet's audience in his second book, <em>Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity</em>. Bennett argues that Romantic writers were not only concerned with their posthumous receptionlike authors of earlier erasbut they began to frame their reception in terms of an ideal audience, so that posthumous reception became the imagined ideal or precondition of poethood: "Posterity is not so much what comes after poetry as its necessary prerequisitethe judgement of future generations becomes the necessary condition of the art of writing itself" (4). Writers not only imagine their poetry surviving them, but surviving them in a peculiar way. The death or dissolution of the poet becomes an imagined necessity for the timelessness of his poetry. Neglect during the poet's lifetime is written into this narrative. Neglect actually adds to the cachet of posthumous fame. The reclamation of the writing of the neglected-but-rehabilitated poet finally redeems his life. The idea of "genius" is crucial here, as neglect seems to authenticate genius; Isaac D'Israeli and William Ireland equated the two. A brief poetic life like Keats'sor Chatterton's or Shelley'sboth takes part in and sustains this imagined trajectory.</p>
<p> Bennett connects the construction of this narrative to changes in the economy of literary publishing. As the audience for poetry fragments in the first decades of the nineteenth century provided huge profits for some authorslike Campbell, Byron, Scott, and for none othersauthors began to construct an ideal audience in and of the future. Shifts in copyright law that assured authors of the "possession" of their work so that even after their deaths (the proceeds would go to their heirs) also placed poets' emphasis on the future. This posthumous consolation offers a "life and death" different from a Chrisitian kind, consoling not only during the present, but also in the future. Bennett is clear to show that this formulation differs from Renaissance or eighteenth-century fame, for Romantic authors do not only hope their works will survive, they also hope their poems will be revived. Time, they assure themselves, will preserve their neglected works.</p>
<p> Bennett, however, is careful not to shrink his notion into a reductive axiom. In his examination of Romantic authors, Bennett stresses the variety of responses to the conundrum of posterity. Posterity becomes an ideal poets are ever challenging, ironizing, working with or working through. Expressions of this concern with posterity do exist in women's writing, he notes, but are far rarer than in men's. For Bennett, women often ironize the masculine obsession with posterityin Felicia Hemans's case, opposing maternal love to monumentalization, in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's, emphasizing the poet's future obscurity. Maybe this attitude, Bennett writes, accounts for their exclusion from the canon as much or more than their sex. In the end, even arguments about canonicity are inherently Romantic, and writers like Hemans and Landon questioned these ideas before they even came down to us.</p>
<p> The second movement of the book investigates five of the canonical poets' reactions to the ideal of posterity. Wordsworth's anxiety about the survival of his poetry is caught up, Bennett argues, with the fret about not being survived by his literal progenyhis family. Unlike other poets, Wordsworth does not seem to have worried about his poetry being obscured, but his work is fascinated by the idea of remains and ruins, which amount to what Bennett calls "a performance of memory, the paradoxical achievement in the present of a future remembrance" (106). What disturbs Wordsworth's fantasy or belief in his own "remains" is the death of his children, as Bennett shows in a sensitive reading of "Surprised by Joy." For Wordsworth, the culture of posterity conflicts with the ideal of personal, biological survival in his progeny.</p>
<p> Coleridge is also at cross-purposes with the idea of poetic survival. Bennett examines Coleridge's obsessive love of talk, that most transitory of media, and how his poetry seems to want to approach the level of talk or even of mere noise. Everyone who met Coleridge was impressed or depressed by his torrent of talk. ("Zounds!" exclaimed one auditor of Coleridge's monologues, "I was never so bethumped with words.") Bennett notes Coleridge's fascination with elements that destabilize his poetry's survival: "For Coleridge, writing acts as an inadequate substitute, a degraded supplement for the noise of talk" (123). Bennett goes on to argue that Coleridge's poetry aspires to inarticulacy, to talk, noise, murmurs, and sheer sound. In readings of "Frost at Midnight" and <em>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</em>, Bennett interprets this aspiration to Coleridge's resistance to the idea of posterity; even as he withheld "Kubla Khan" and <em>Christabel</em> from publication, he foregrounded the sound of poetrythat element of poetry which can least survive the page.</p>
<p> These discussions of Wordsworth and Coleridge, who lived long livesliving into and even through their famemight seem less than relevant to Bennett's thesis, but the second generation, who died young, only enforce it. Keats is obviously still of central importance to Bennett, since of all the poets he is so preceded by the story of his dying, 25-and-a-half-year-old body. Yet Keats, as Bennett points out, is not only the object (or victim?) of the Romantic culture of posterity: Keats himself imagined it as he was still living. Bennett interrogates Keats's interest in Chatterton as imagining himself already famous and dead. He notes how Keats often figures himself as sick (in "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," for example) long before he actually had any symptoms of the illness that killed him. For Bennett, Keats's self-construction of illness inscribes his death and posthumous reception. "Keats's poetry," Bennett writes, "is the first fully to integrate this sense of the necessary deferral of recognition in the poetry itself" (151).</p>
<p> Shelley would seem to be culmination of the idea of Romantic posterity. <em>Adonais</em> and <em>A Defence of Poetry</em> are obviously concerned with future and posthumous fame. In many ways Shelley puts the poet forward as existing primarily in the future. His statement that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" makes it clear that a poet's most important audience is proleptic; poets for Shelley can only really write for the future. Shelley was deeply concerned about his reputation, made himself knowledgeable about changes in the print trade, and was certainly recognized while he was alivethough he never achieved the popular recognition (that is, the sales) during his lifetime that he thought he deserved. Instead, he created "fictions of posthumous writing" (169) where the poet not only writes for the audience after his death but also figures the poet as already deadboth speaking and creating the future. This concern animates Shelley's fascination with ghosts and survivals beyond death as ghostly presences.</p>
<p> Of all these poets (Hemans excepted), Byron actually experienced fame and monetary success while he was still living, yet even his success took place after a kind of deathof his reputation, certainly. His exile was also a kind of death. Like a dead poet, Byron was famous authorially while absent physically. Byron was ambivalent both about his success and about the culture of posterity that his success might have seemed to question. He expressed aristocratic disdain for authors who depended on their works for income. Yet Byron learned the ways of the market; though he originally gave away his copyrights to a cousin, by the 1820s he was bargaining with his publishers for more and more payment. Bennett examines "Churchill's Grave" for evidence of Byron's ambiguous attitudes; for Bennett, the poem questions many of the Romantic assumptions about the role of posthumous fame. Churchill does not fit into the character of the once-neglected-but-now-famous poet comfortably, at least as Byron presents him; he is at once known and obscure, his grave abandoned and visited. For Bennett, Byron deconstructs and questions the idea of Romantic posterity. In "Churchill's Grave" and <em>Don Juan</em>, Byron questions the culture of posterity even as these poems seem to enforce it.</p>
<p> The strength of this book is its comprehensiveness. Bennett not only reads the expected poets and those, like Landon and Hemans, recently decanted into the canon; we also read about Henry Kirke White (a protégé of Southey's) and Isabella Lickbarrow. Its discussions are convincing, always aware of their larger implications for literary study and quite readable. Bennett is attuned to the ways in which his ownand ourreading is still caught up in the fantasy of posthumous fame.</p>
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